Thank you Ted, for your suggestions re my Psathyrella. I've decided I'm not going to be able to I.D. what I find without a microscope. I've been thinking about...
Out looking for early butterflies this lunchtime - sunny enough and warm enough (17C!) but too windy - I spotted two saucer-sized Field Blewits on my way home....
On the topic of changing seasons, we heard a very good talk from Tim Sparks from the UK Phenology Network at the LNHS members' day last weekend. Their website...
Keir's note reminded me to visit the blewitt patch in Ruskin Park, SE5, today. There were 3 clumps of them, very wet but young. I haven't been there for some...
Subject: [londonfungi] Schizophyllum amplum or Auriculariopsis ampla Anyone wanting to visit Railway Fields to visit the above (or for any other reason!),...
Thanks to Mick for note about phenology and link to site. It would be good if we put in some dates to their site as the spring fungi get going. In fact...
If, like me, you scratch aound on the web for fungi photos to aid in identification, try this webpage which I have just discovered. It may already be familiar...
... in ... It is pretty good but very patchy. Just searching under Google images for a particular genus or species can be better. The on-line searchable key at...
Ladies and Gents, you or someone you know may be interested in taking a degree course in Natural History at Kingston University. The course is designed for...
Hello there, I've got a microscope now and I'm struggling a bit with getting the dyes etc. I need. I've found Brunel Microscopes for most of the bits and...
Hello everyone, I've put another web address into the Links section of the website. It's the page on the BMS site which has contact details, including web...
Just to let anyone interested in Hampstead Heath know that the Hampstead Heath Survey group meeting this Sunday (29 February) will be the last one under the...
I think I've found something (possible Cortinarius, subgenus Telamonia - yesterday pm on burnt ground) which I might want to send off for expert ID. Has...
Hi Keir. Go to http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/mycolcollecting.html where the procedure for submitting specimens for identification is given in detail. It...
Hi there, the shaggy bracket I couldn't work out is Postia subcaesia, which used to be known as Tyromyces subcaesius. I've edited the name on the photos....
Yes of course, "The blueing bracket", Tyromyces caesius aka Postia subcaesia. The verbal descriptions in Phillips and Bonn fit your picures perfectly, although...
Thanks to everyone who posted info on sending stuff to Kew. I reckon the web address is worth putting in the links section for future reference. Detailed or...
While in Scotland last week, I noticed something interesting growing on sawn logs of wych elm. Macroscopically, the thing was a dead ringer for Flammulina...
Hi there Keir, I'm pretty sure that the amount of stickyness or slimyness on velvet shank is directly affected by the weather. In dry conditions it becomes...
Hi there, I've noticed a couple of patches of orange discs with brown edges on soil in Abney at the moment. They are up to about 14 mm across. They seem to be...
Nice find Gina, I haven't seen it this year. Regis Courtecuisse in Mushrooms of Britain and Europe (Harper Collins, London 1999) gives its season as September...
Pat & I found a Melastiza in Bedfordshire last month. It did not key out entirely satisfactorily as chateri, but seemed closer to that than anything else. I...
Hi there, thanks for your replies on this. In the Fungi of Switzerland it gives Melastiza chateri as appearing from May to September. I've not found it in...
Hi there everyone, On 1.4.04 I found an ink cap that had around L = 90, growing singly or in tufts, fleecy scales (rounded, white) and oblong spores with an ...
Nice pictures Gina, which look like Coprinus lagopus to me, and that would fit your description of the spores. As the royal Danish mycologist had it "lagopus...
Hi there Ted, Thanks for your reply. I wasn't really looking at those species for the following reasons. The ink caps on both dates had adnate gills that...
