Two Shaggy Parasols, Chlorophyllum rhacodes, under Beech from a quick walk this evening. the flesh should be reddish when cut.
Stem should be dark, but not snake-patterned below the ring
Together with lots of Bleeding Broadleaf Crust, Stereum rugosum on a fallen young Beech, reddening quite nicely
Lots of wood-rotting going on in Fox Wood Covert this afternoon, with also a few Buttercaps, Rhodocollybia butyracea, scattered around and a small patch of the Sulphur Knight, Tricholoma sulphureum, near the beginning. Note the central browning around a small remaining umbo. There are some purple shades on some caps according to the books, often quite confusing.
It is a relatively tall mushroom! Stem often twice the cap diameter, as it appears to be here. And the smell was definitely strong and noxious.
I couldn't see any reddish fibres on the stem as described and the gills looked almost decurrent within the "sinuate" range.
Supposedly mycorrhizal with deciduous trees such as Oak and Beech, only occasionally with conifers. These ones might be linked to some nearby Oaks, oddly I haven't found it under the Beech trees elsewhere in the woods.
Compare to Tricholoma frondosae under Aspen at Beacon Wood a couple of weeks ago.
A lovely patch of Stereum subtomentosum, both from above and below, trying to look a little like Turkeytail.
This Datronia mollis was I think on a long-fallen Ash branch, stacked by kids on a Hornbeam. This is quite variable according to age and development. I suspect the first two are images of the same younger patch of fruiting body, the first untouched and the second rubbed. The third image is I believe an older and more bruised patch, with proportionately larger pores, but still resupinate and not yet elongated and maze-like.
In the last photo there is a jelly-like species, just possibly Crystal Brain, Exidia nucleata.
In the first compartment I picked up this broken up Russula, which might have been Russula ochroleuca, the very common Ochre Brittle Gill. The macro-chemicals didn't exactly as expected however, with the Guiac going Blue-Green, but the Iron going maybe pink-gray but then dark grey. In addition, the gills when crushed, smelt like rotten fish I thought. So, as usual, no firm answer - but it looked like the Ochre, and I have seen several rather similar ones in the past. I did eventually agree there were some greenish tinges and possibly some darker ochre spots. It is also on the Pitt/Weightman list.
It seemed to be closer to the Sweet Chestnut and Hornbeams than to the Beech downhill.
Buttercap - note the woolly foot.
Clouded Funnel - surprisingly dramatically curled up when older!
Stagshorn, Calocera viscosa
The group found several individual fruiting bodies of the yellow Tricholoma associated with Aspen and maybe other Populus species, Tricholoma frondosae. Other trees have also been linked as ectomycorrhizal partners, but the group seemed to think the Aspen link was the most important. This also looks very like the Tricholoma equestre associated with Pines and other conifers, and they were thought to be just one joint species until 2001. Note the scales?
