including the Adur Levels, Mill Hill and cyclepath to Upper Beeding
14
December 2007
ABlewits,
Lepista
sp.,
mushroom
was recorded from the ridge of Mill Hill,
the first time this mushroom as been recorded from Mill
Hill Nature Reserve. I originally identified this as a Field
Blewits, Lepista saeva, but this
species has no blue on its cap.
| 7
December 2007
The first Wood Blewit, Lepista nuda, mushroom seen this autumn was spotted on the wood chippings on Ropetackle in Shoreham town by the River Adur. This
may be a Field Blewits, Lepista
saeva.
|
 |
I'd
go for the rather variable Lepista
sordida for both of those, but
you really need to measure the spores to be sure. Lepista
sordida is the only Lepista
which
can be completely blue/purple all over, but it can also have hardly any
blue at all. It favours disturbed and garden situations (probably slightly
raised fertility but overlaps in this with Wood Blewits)
Lepista
saeva doesn't have any blue/purple in the cap.
I
am sure I remember reading years ago that the traditional English name
for these is "a blewits" - one of those words like "a thrips" where the
singular ends in "s", but have been unable to trace this.
| 3
December 2007
Two species of mushrooms were discovered on the exposed upper slopes of Mill Hill where the grasses were short like bowling green turf. The first right was the Pale Wax Cap, Hygrocybe pratensis var pallida, and the second one could be a Conocybe species*. The stem of this mushroom was fragile and it was a surprise it survived the gales of the previous day on the exposed top part of Mill Hill. |
|
 |
* Psathyrella
has black spores and hence dirty grey to blackish gills (occasionally drying
pale grey when all the spores are gone)
The
mushroom above clearly has brown gills so it's a Conocybe
(or possibly a Galerina
but it looks a bit large for grassland Galerina
spp.)
22
November 2007
There
was at least one clump of miniature white
Clavulina
in
the Maple Spinney
next to the Waterworks
Road (southern end). On
the bowling green grass of the upper slopes of
Mill
Hill I spotted a small single fresh pure white mushroom called the
Pale
Wax Cap,
Hygrocybe
pratensis var pallida.
21
November 2007
A
small clump of Field Mushrooms grew underneath a Poplar
Tree on the edge of Southwick
Green, but they were too wet and deteriorated
to eat.
19
November 2007
The
first Jew's Ear,
Auricularia
auricula-judae, of the autumn was attached to a Hawthorn on the
path to the north of the lower slopes
of Mill Hill.
 |
15
November 2007
On south slopes of Anchor Bottom (Dacre Garden entrance), two small white mushrooms were seen amongst the grasses and sedges. I think these may be young versions of the Pale Wax Cap, Hygrocybe pratensis var pallida. |
3 November 2007
Shaggy
Pholiota, Pholiota squarrosa on
Lancing
Clump
Photograph
by Ray Hamblett
on flickr
Lancing
Ring pool
2 November
2007
Fungi
spotted on Lancing
Ring included the
bracket fungus Trametes,
a large clump of Sulphur
Tuft and
the rounded Puff
Balls. I did not search the clump.
19
October 2007
Three
species of mushroom were spotted on Lancing
Clump.
 |
 |
 |
|
possibly Lactarius pubescens I should tested if these exuded sap as a milk cap |
under Lancing Clump |
from Lancing Clump wood |
18
October 2007
Three
small mushrooms in the Triangle area of
Mill
Hill were Dung
Roundheads, Stropharia.
29
July 2007
Two
large Agaricus mushrooms
were seen growing on a grass verge at the east end of Crown Road, Shoreham.
One had been dislodged but the largest one with a diameter of 10 cm or
more was in-situ. On the plateau area of Mill
Hill, I spotted a couple of Dung Roundheads,
Stropharia.
 |
4
July 2007
A single small mushroom on the Pixie Path was probably a Dung Roundhead, Stropharia. |
2 July
2007
There
were five large Agaricus mushrooms growing in the small copse
connecting Buckingham Park with Ravensbourne Avenue in Shoreham. The gills
were pale grey and they have been seen before in this location. The largest
mushroom was 60 mm in diameter.
20
May 2007
There
were over a dozen large probable Agaricus
mushrooms growing on the eastern end of
the Public Footpath
3138 section of the Waterworks
Road. The gills of these mushrooms were white.
19
May 2007
In
the shade of my north-facing garden (after the rain), just outside my front
door (in my garden
in residential Shoreham), one inkcap
species
Coprinus
plicatilis appeared as it does in most years.
Its cap diameter was measured at 32 mm and its height at about 100 mm.
The stem was brittle. Later a smaller brown mushroom was seen next to it
which was probably the same species or another
inkcap. The stem on this much smaller mushroom
was more robust.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
7
March 2007
Several Jew's Ear, Auricularia auricula-judae, grew on a rotten branch on the footpath east at the southern end of the the Waterworks Road. At a width of 12 cm, one of these was the biggest I have ever seen. Photograph: Jew's Ear, Auricularia auricula-judae |
| 18
February 2007
The unidentfied fungus in the photograph on the right was seen on a wound on a White Poplar Tree at the south-east end of Adur Recreation Ground near the inlet. |
 |
 |
 |
| 26
January 2007
The first clump of mushrooms were seen on a stump opposite Ladywell's on the Coombes road and were probably Honey Fungus. |
The second sprinkling of about thirty small mushrooms were on the mud and leaf litter road eastern verge north of Cuckoo's Corner and the detached mushroom was seen to be buried in the earth. Although this species is frequently seen, it has not been identified as there are so many of these small brown mushrooms. |
15
January 2007
The
second mushrooms seen in the year were Panaeolus
papilionaceus var papilionaceus
growing
on horse droppings piled up on the edge of a field by the Steyning Road,
Old Shoreham. Later, several
Jew's Ear, Auricularia
auricula-judae, were growing on Hawthorn on Mill
Hill, amongst the scrub in the northwest corner.
12
January 2007
My
first mushrooms seen this year were a small brown unidentified species
growing on the wood chips in the shrub beds of McDonalds, Eastern Avenue,
Shoreham.
There were at least dozen of these small mushrooms just appearing.
