Saturday, 18 October 2025

KFC meeting at Monkton Nature Reserve

 A good list of species with some interesting finds including some under logs.

One of the interesting little brown mushrooms (LBMs) is the Mouse-pee PinkGill, Entoloma incanum. When handled it becomes increasingly blue-green, and it smells of caged mice.

The widely spaced gills are adnate, start whitish then turn grey-pink, but will discolour blue green if bruised.


The Meadow Coral, Clavulinopsis corniculata, looked likely for this, the other yellow clubs are less branched and they all need microscopy


On rotting wood by the pond, Calocera cornea, was quickly spotted



on the other hand this might be very young Calocera viscosa, often a little more orange



Also on wood, what are probably, even if rather dark, the spatula-shaped asexual anamorphic bodies of the Purple Jelly Disc, Ascocoryne sarcoides. The most likely alternative, Ascocoryne sylichnium, does not have an anamorphic stage. 




Trichoderma viride



The Bolete, Suillus collinitus, under Pines at Monkton Nature Reserve. Notice the very yellow pore surface, the pores of which are fine to medium in size, that browns a bit later, the fibrillose (?) cap (viscid when wet we are told), the pinkish mycelium at the base of the stipe and the brownish granules around the stipe, still seen at the top.





Wrinkled Crust, Phlebia radiata



Mycoacia uda was one of the few crusts I got any clue of. The others languish in the images folder.






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