Fungi of the Urban Adur Area in November 2004


23 November 2004
On the lawn of at St Bernard's Court residential flats near Lancing railway station, two caps of the Parrot Wax Cap, Hygrocybe psittacina, were still seen.

Report by Ray Hamblett (Lancing Nature) on the Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


21 November 2004
Puff BallsThere were about ten Puff Ball Mushrooms, Lycoperdon perlatum, near the rotten log at the north of Buckingham Park by the central gap in the park wall.

3 November 2004
 All the species were present and most of them photographed on the aforementioned date. However, in the case of the mushroom numbers 5 and 11, both the mushrooms were in too poor a condition and photographs taken at a different date will be substituted.

1

At the base of a healthy tree on Southwick Green
 

Agaricus sp.

ID confirmed by  Malcolm Storey (BioImages) on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


2

Between the cracks on a concrete verge in Dolphin Road, Shoreham
The diameter of the cap was 71 mm.
The spore print was not all that successful. It came out a moist, very light brown, almost orangey (fulvous).
 

Lepista sordida

ID suggested by  Malcolm Storey (BioImages) on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


3

On the shingle beach at Lancing where there was just a little soil
 
Volvariella

Volvariella gloiocephala



4

On a bit of greenery at the edge of the wood in the land north of Brooklands Lake
Slightly decurrent gills
This mushroom was about 30 mm in cap width.
 

Blewit Lepistra saeva

ID confirmed by  Malcolm Storey (BioImages) on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


5

At the base of a fence post at the edge of the wood in the land north of Brooklands Lake
 
Glistening Ink Caps

Glistening Ink Caps

The mushrooms were in too poor mushy condition for a photograph. The image was from Shoreham in December 2003.



6

Roadside verge, Lancing
The cap diameter was up to 100 mm.
Pronounced mushroomy smell
 

Agaricus campestris



7

On a flower bed in Lancing town centre
The cap diameter of the largest specimen was measured at 96 mm
The identification query is on the pronounced rim seen on the underside of the cap
 

Leucoagaricus leucothites

ID confirmed by  Malcolm Storey (BioImages) on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


8

On a flower bed in Lancing town centre
No ring, mottled stem
Firm mushroom, compared to (2)
 

They would appear to be Lepista nuda, the Wood Blewit.

ID by Mark Pike on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)


9

On a private lawn near Lancing railway station
 

Ctilocybe rivulosa

ID (to genus) confirmed and the species suggested by  Malcolm Storey (BioImages) on Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)
This could be Ctilocybe delbata. Both species are poisonous.


10

On a private lawn near Lancing railway station
 

Hygrocybe psittacina

Adur Wax Caps web page



11
 
Amillaria gallica

Amillaria gallica

Earlier photograph by Ray Hamblett



12

Tiny fungus under a private lawn near Lancing railway station
 

Clavulinopsis ?


13
 
Blackening Wax cap

Hygrocybe conica



 
ADUR FUNGI LINKS
Fungi of Lancing
Fungi of Shoreham
Adur Fruiting Bodies Database
Lancing Fungi Gallery (by Ray Hamblett)
Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)
Lancing Clump Supplementary
Autumn 2004 Fungi of Mill Hill
Fungi Images on the Web (Index)


Link to Adur Valley Nature Notes 2003Link to the Adur Nature Notes 2004 Index page