Bramshill College
Sat 19 Nov 2011
Field event ID HF1132
OS Grid areas: SU7659 SU7660 SU7560
Report: (Eric Janke) The grounds of what is currently a police college are varied habitat with grassland, deciduous and conifer woodland, which, yet again, exhibited a good range of fungi thanks to the continuing damp and mild conditions. The grassland played host to large numbers of Hygrocybe, although the range of species was not exceptional and the interesting colours of many of the fruit bodies were probably due to overnight frost or the application of “weedkiller” . Several fruit bodies of the Barometer Earthstar, Astraeus hygrometricus were found in their usual site near the Chestnuts. The large piles of woodchips were host to troops of Gymnopilus penetrans and a few of the purple-capped Gymnopilus dilepis, looking just like the illustration on the back of Field Mycology, which aided identification no end! Alan had Paul climbing trees to try to photograph an inaccessible Phellinus populicola and which left the rest of us to admire and photograph a grove of two-foot Macrolepiota procera and Eric even found a couple of P. Populicola in a much more photogenic location. The prize for the smallest agaric of the day probably goes to the pink-capped Mycena smithiana found by Eric and identified by Alan as they trawled though leaf-litter atop a fallen oak.
Species list: Agaricus langei, Agaricus moelleri, Agaricus urinascens var. urinascens, Agrocybe rivulosa, Amanita citrina, Amanita muscaria, Amanita rubescens, Armillaria mellea, Astraeus hygrometricus, Bjerkandera adusta, Boletus cisalpinus, Boletus edulis, Boletus pruinatus, Boletus pulverulentus, Clavaria fragilis, Clavulina rugosa, Clavulinopsis helvola, Clavulinopsis luteoalba, Clitocybe fragrans, Clitocybe geotropa, Clitocybe nebularis, Clitocybe rivulosa, Clitopilus prunulus, Coniophora puteana, Coprinellus micaceus, Coprinopsis picacea, Coprinus comatus, Cortinarius hemitrichus, Cortinarius sanguineus, Crepidotus cesatii, Crepidotus epibryus, Crepidotus mollis, Crepidotus variabilis, Cystoderma amianthinum, Dermoloma cuneifolium, Entoloma sericellum, Entoloma serrulatum, Filobasidiella lutea, Fistulina hepatica, Galerina atkinsoniana, Ganoderma australe, Geastrum fimbriatum, Geoglossum fallax, Gliophorus psittacinus, Granulobasidium vellereum, Gymnopilus dilepis, Gymnopilus junonius, Gymnopilus penetrans, Gymnopus fusipes, Hebeloma helodes, Helvella crispa, Hydnum repandum, Hygrocybe ceracea, Hygrocybe chlorophana, Hygrocybe coccinea, Hygrocybe conica, Hygrocybe miniata, Hygrocybe pratensis, Hygrocybe russocoriacea, Hygrocybe virginea, Hymenoscyphus caudatus, Hypholoma fasciculare, Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina, Inocybe sindonia, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius helvus, Lactarius hepaticus, Lactarius pubescens, Lactarius subdulcis, Lactarius turpis, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum scabrum, Lepiota cristata, Lepista flaccida, Lepista nuda, Lycoperdon lividum, Lycoperdon nigrescens, Melanoleuca polioleuca, Mutinus caninus, Mycena aetites, Mycena flavoalba, Mycena galericulata, Mycena galopus, Mycena polygramma, Mycena pura, Mycena smithiana, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Phallus impudicus, Phanerochaete velutina, Phellinus populicola, Phlebia radiata, Phlebia tremellosa, Phlebiopsis gigantea, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pluteus cervinus, Postia caesia, Psilocybe cyanescens, Psilocybe semilanceata, Resupinatus applicatus, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rickenella swartzii, Russula cicatricata, Russula ochroleuca, Russula parazurea, Russula pelargonia, Russula versicolor, Scleroderma citrinum, Stereum sanguinolentum, Stropharia cyanea, Stropharia pseudocyanea, Suillus bovinus, Suillus luteus, Trametes gibbosa, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Trichaptum abietinum, Tricholoma fulvum, Tubaria furfuracea