The Chase, Woolton Hill
Sun 14 Oct 2012
Melanotus horizontalis
Photo © Stuart Skeates
Field event ID HF1222
OS Grid areas: SU4462
Weather: A chiily but sunny day.
Report: (Mike Harrison) On a chilly, but pleasantly sunny day, 16 forayers from TVFG and HFRG found a total of 123 species. While there were not many of the larger mycorrhizal fungi about, there was enough variety to keep everyone interested . One of the finds of the day was the brown - spored cap fungus Melanotus horizontalis, looking a bit like a brown Crepidotus . Another find was Lanzia luteovirens - a little yellow cup fungus with a stem, typically growing on sycamore petioles.A dead foxglove stem produced the small white Calyptella capula, also present when HFRG last visited the Chase in 2009 . It was also good to see Pseudoboletus parasiticus growing on a Scleroderma citrina , in what seems to have been a favourable year for the latter species. Little white stipes growing from a spruce cone eventually matured into fruit bodies of Strobilurus esculentus, whose identification was confirmed by its characteristic crystalline cystidia.
Species list: Amanita citrina var. citrina, Amanita fulva, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Annulohypoxylon multiforme, Armillaria mellea, Armillaria ostoyae, Ascocoryne sarcoides, Boletus edulis, Boletus pruinatus, Calocera cornea, Calocera pallidospathulata, Calocera viscosa, Calyptella capula, Cheilymenia granulata, Cheilymenia stercorea, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Clitocybe fragrans, Clitocybe metachroa, Clitocybe nebularis, Coniophora puteana, Conocybe arrhenii, Coprinellus micaceus, Coprinopsis atramentaria, Coprinopsis lagopus var. lagopus, Cortinarius brunneus var. glandicolor, Cortinarius flexipes var. flexipes, Crepidotus epibryus, Crepidotus mollis, Crepidotus variabilis, Crepidotus versutus, Cudoniella clavus var. clavus, Dacrymyces stillatus, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Diatrype disciformis, Erysiphe alphitoides, Galerina marginata, Ganoderma australe, Gymnopilus penetrans, Gymnopus peronatus, Hebeloma crustuliniforme, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, Hymenochaete corrugata, Hyphodontia sambuci, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypoxylon fragiforme, Inocybe stellatospora, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lachnum virgineum, Lactarius blennius, Lactarius tabidus, Lanzia luteovirescens, Lasiobolus cuniculi, Leccinum scabrum, Lycoperdon perlatum, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Megalocystidium leucoxanthum, Melanotus horizontalis, Mensularia radiata, Meripilus giganteus, Mycena abramsii, Mycena arcangeliana, Mycena capillaripes, Mycena filopes, Mycena galericulata, Mycena haematopus, Mycena hiemalis, Mycena leptocephala, Mycena olida, Mycena rorida, Mycena stylobates, Mycena tenerrima, Mycena vitilis, Naucoria escharioides, Oudemansiella mucida, Panellus stipticus, Paxillus involutus, Paxillus rubicundulus, Peziza micropus, Phaeomarasmius erinaceus, Phlebiella sulphurea, Pholiota gummosa, Pholiota highlandensis, Phragmidium violaceum, Piptoporus betulinus, Pluteus cervinus, Pluteus chrysophaeus, Pluteus phlebophorus, Postia caesia, Psathyrella piluliformis, Pseudoboletus parasiticus, Resupinatus applicatus, Rhodocollybia butyracea, Rhopographus filicinus, Rhytisma acerinum, Russula atropurpurea, Russula fellea, Russula nobilis, Russula ochroleuca, Russula parazurea, Rutstroemia firma, Schizopora paradoxa, Scleroderma citrinum, Scutellinia scutellata, Scutellinia trechispora, Simocybe sumptuosa, Skeletocutis nivea, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum sanguinolentum, Strobilurus esculentus, Trametes versicolor, Tremella mesenterica, Trichaptum abietinum, Trochila ilicina, Tubaria furfuracea, Tubulifera arachnoidea, Typhula erythropus, Vuilleminia comedens, Xylaria hypoxylon, Xylaria longipes