Shortheath Common
Sun 14 Sep 2014
Field event ID HF1414
OS Grid areas: SU7736
Weather: Mostly dry after heavy rain several weeks earlier
New Records:
New to HFRG: Tomentella cinerascens
New to VC12: Russula robertii
Report: Hopes were raised when Sue, Ginnie and Izzy returned from a pre-foray “comfort break” with a handful of agarics and so it proved. Despite the apparently dry conditions, agarics were quite plentiful and reasonably variable with 11 Russulas, 4 Lactarius, 8 boletes, including 4 “birch boletes ” (Leccinum scabrum, holopus, variicolor and cyaneobasileucum) and Alan found a tall tall sticky-capped agaric in the moss, which he identified as Hypholoma myosotis. Apart from the cap‘nstems, Paul was complaining (again) about having insufficient space for all his resupinates, Sue found the white spindles of Clavaria acuta and Tony discovered a single specimen of Peziza limnea in a similar location to where it was found last year, although the higher water table prevented us venturing quite so far into the bog this time. Find of the day probably goes to a grey resupinate uncovered by Sue in a pile of willow logs at the end of the day, which turned out to be (always was!) Tomentella cinerascens, the first time it has been recorded in Hampshire since 1916.
Species list: Amanita fulva, Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, Amanita phalloides, Amanita rubescens var. rubescens, Bjerkandera adusta, Bolbitius titubans var. titubans, Boletus badius, Boletus edulis, Boletus reticulatus, Boletus rubellus, Botryobasidium subcoronatum, Botryobasidium subcoronatum, Bulbillomyces farinosus, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, Clavaria acuta, Clavaria acuta, Claviceps purpurea var. purpurea, Clavulina coralloides, Cortinarius alnetorum, Cortinarius betulinus, Cortinarius croceus, Cylindrobasidium laeve, Cylindrobasidium laeve, Daedaleopsis confragosa, Delicatula integrella, Diatrype bullata, Fuscoporia ferrea, Ganoderma australe, Hebeloma pusillum, Helvella lacunosa, Hypholoma fasciculare var. fasciculare, Hypholoma myosotis, Hypholoma myosotis, Kuehneromyces mutabilis, Laccaria amethystina, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius quietus, Lactarius subdulcis, Lactarius torminosus, Lactarius vietus, Leccinum cyaneobasileucum, Leccinum holopus, Leccinum scabrum, Leccinum variicolor, Marasmiellus ramealis, Mycena haematopus, Mycoacia fuscoatra, Mycoacia fuscoatra, Mycoacia uda, Paxillus involutus, Peniophora incarnata, Peniophora quercina, Peziza limnaea, Phanerochaete velutina, Phanerochaete velutina, Phellinus igniarius, Phlebia subochracea, Phlebia tremellosa, Pholiota aurivella, Piptoporus betulinus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Polyporus leptocephalus, Pseudoboletus parasiticus, Russula amoenolens, Russula atropurpurea, Russula betularum, Russula claroflava, Russula exalbicans, Russula nigricans, Russula nitida, Russula ochroleuca, Russula parazurea, Russula robertii, Russula velenovskyi, Scleroderma citrinum, Scopuloides rimosa, Subulicystidium longisporum, Thelephora terrestris, Tomentella cinerascens, Tomentella cinerascens, Tricholoma fulvum