Summer fungi in North Holland

[goosey]

I went out today (31-07-2009) and was rather pleased with my finds.

1. Maybe Mycena inclinata?

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2. Earth stars, these were small - the larger of the two was only 2cm in diameter.

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3 . Isn't this lovely - it looks like the sliced of top of a lemon.
Is it Pluteus leoninus?

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4. Bolete. Largish, about 13cm in diameter, a very uneven shape. Maybe B. subtomentosus?

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5. Unknown - whitish-silver with a yellow tinge. There was just the one on mossy grass 3cm tall.

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6, Sulpher tuft

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[Cybershot]

That Pluteus leoninus - Lion Shield is a beautiful and rare find:

"Pluteus leoninus (Schaeff.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 98 (1871)

Agaricus leoninus Schaeff., Fung. Bavar. Palat. 1: 21 (1762)
Agaricus sororiatus P. Karst., Not. Sällsk. Faun. Fl. Fenn. Forhandl. 9: 339 (1868)
Pluteus sororiatus (P. Karst.) P. Karst., Ryssl., Finl. Skandin. Halföns. Hattsvamp. (Helsingfors) 32: 254 (1879)

Habitat: On very decayed wood of deciduous trees. Mostly reported on Fagus but also known on Betula, Quercus and Salix spp.

Notes: Much confused with other yellow Pluteus species and the majority of the records are unsubstantiated with voucher material. The filamentous cap cuticle distinguishes this species from P. chrysophaeus.

Conservation Status: Rare (Red Data List, ed. 1)"

Extract from Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

[goosey]

Originally Posted by Cybershot

That Pluteus leoninus - Lion Shield is a beautiful and rare find:

"Pluteus leoninus (Schaeff.) P. Kumm., Führ. Pilzk. (Zwickau): 98 (1871)

Agaricus leoninus Schaeff., Fung. Bavar. Palat. 1: 21 (1762)
Agaricus sororiatus P. Karst., Not. Sällsk. Faun. Fl. Fenn. Forhandl. 9: 339 (1868)
Pluteus sororiatus (P. Karst.) P. Karst., Ryssl., Finl. Skandin. Halföns. Hattsvamp. (Helsingfors) 32: 254 (1879)

Habitat: On very decayed wood of deciduous trees. Mostly reported on Fagus but also known on Betula, Quercus and Salix spp.

Notes: Much confused with other yellow Pluteus species and the majority of the records are unsubstantiated with voucher material. The filamentous cap cuticle distinguishes this species from P. chrysophaeus.

Conservation Status: Rare (Red Data List, ed. 1)"

Extract from Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

I have a gill image but I don't think it shows a filamentous cap cuticle (I haven't come across that term before )

[Cybershot]

A useful additional image, and further supporting evidence from Fungi of Switzerland states:

"Habitat Usually solitary in hardwood and mixed conifer-hardwood forests, on dead branches or pieces of wood on the ground, also on rotten stumps, Summer to fall. Not common.
Pileus(20) 25-40 (70) mm across, conic-campanulate when young,later convex to plane, often with a small umbo, surface smooth,,dull, finely tormentose-granulose under a hand lens, slightly hygrophanous, gold-yellow with a brown-yellow centre and with a striate marginal zone when moist, light brownish-yellow and non-striate when dry, margin acute.
Lamellae white when young, sometimes gold-yellow toward the pileal margin later pink, broad, free,edges white-cillate.
Stipe 40-50 (90) x 2-4(6) mm,cylindrical, solid when young, hollow when old, elastic, surface smooth, white when young, later yellow to olive-yellow,especially towards the base, faintly longitudially white fibrillous."

Without the need for microscopy (OMG - I'll be drummed out of WAB if not careful ), and compared with look-alikes such as distinctly yellow forms of P. chrysophaeus, I think the vibrantly yellow, velvety cap and colouring of the stem of your specimen makes this recognisable as this species in the field according to the references. Nice one .......I'm green with envy

David

[goosey]

Thanks David and for all the extra info - above and beyond the call of duty

There were at least five other examples in the immediate area of this most gorgeous little fungus.

[Cybershot]

You're more than welcome Shirley, I wish I could help with the others. Though I might just be persuaded to stick my neck on the line and suggest the Earthstar could be Geastrum fimbriatum - Sessile Earthstar, as I can't see any evidence of a paler ring zone around the apical pore which would indicate G. triplex

David

[bulbosa]

Shirley
I would agree with David on the earth star Geastrum fimbratum but I think your Mycena is unlikely to be inclinata they grow in large groups. A possibility is M leptocephala but even with a microscope they can be difficult on occasions. Pluteus is great.

Mal

[goosey]

Originally Posted by bulbosa

Shirley
I would agree with David on the earth star Geastrum fimbratum but I think your Mycena is unlikely to be inclinata they grow in large groups. A possibility is M leptocephala but even with a microscope they can be difficult on occasions. Pluteus is great.

Mal

Thanks Mal, there were a few of these scattered around, certainly not in groups, so I have changed the details for the Mycena to a possible M leptocephala .

[goosey]

Here are a few more - I am not finding such quantities or species as David though . I am sure I can catch up if we have some rain

7. Lactarius Sp



8. Geastrum fimbriatum - Sessile Earthstar



9. A tiny Marasmius Sp, in a hollowed out beech mast.

[goosey]

It is still very dry and I presume that is why I am not coming across much fungi at the mo'.
I went to a different place this morning which in better times usually throws up plenty, and honestly this was all I saw.

8. On 24-08-2007 this was the very first fungi I ever took a picture of in Holland. Actually it was a more intersting shape but my picture wasn't very good as it was so high and I was zooing into the sun.
Now here it is again again on the the same oak tree, this time it was only 1.5m off the ground.
I just love the colour which actually changes shades, as it gets further away from the place of contact with the tree it gets paler.
It was only 11cm high and the base of it was 9x12cm. (I took notes )
I believe it to be an erupting Fistulina hepatica.




9. Coprinus Sp found on pony dung. 5cm tall.




10. I think is Coprinus patouillardii, it was found in Highlang cattle dung, the cap was 6mm across.

[Cybershot]

No wonder this fungus ID is such a tricky pastime when you compare the specimens of Fistulina hepatica which both Shirley and I have found recently: Even the emergent fruitbodies were somewhat different in both instances: