UK Fungi

Hi Paul I organised a BMS workshop and Spring Foray at Cober Hill back in 2004. Lovely spot - though I am biased, being a Scarborough lad! I am currently assembling a Yorkshire Mycota (nearly 10% done - over 520 species). If there were any local records of lichenicolous species I'd be interested (or...

I know some naturalists don't like the term "invertebrates" but in this context I crave their indulgence. This was collected recently while searching for microfungi on gorse. I am grateful to the YNU Coleoptera Recorder Bob Marsh for his prompt response; this weevil (scarce in Yorks but widely distr...

Is it everywhere where there is Griselinia? but no-one has looked for it before. As I said in a previous post: It would be interesting to know how the fungus spreads, I would suspect that it survives as an endophyte . From the RHS website it would appear that Griselinia littoralis is propagated by ...

Bonsoir Hervé
Magnifique! Je pense qu'il ne fait aucun doute que vous avez trouvé cette espèce.

Amitiés
Chris

I have collected Pholiotina hadrocystis on a soil/woodchip mix in a town centre raised flower-bed, but you need microscopy to take these to species.
Chris

Hi Bob * A fascinating record. This is Schizophyllum commune , a remarkably adaptive fungus - see the comment about it having fruited in a little girl's sinuses here: https://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/feb2000.html ; though at least in that case one could imagine where it's getting its carbon ...

Sorry Bob, but without microscopy there's no chance of an ID of this interesting fungus.
Chris

Hi Bob With these fungi the first thing to check is whether the asci stain blue (at least at apex), by no means do all "cups" belong in the Pezizaceae. That said you have entered a taxonomic minefield. See: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3153301/Pfister_PhylogeneticDiversityCore.pdf?seq...

Hi when I saw the image with the 5 spores which are rather egg-shaped, and appear smooth I had my doubts; but looking at the wider image with many more almond-shaped spores I'm more convinced; plus you do state that the spores were rough. Here are my efforts with this species: Galerina clavata 0a.jp...

In New Zealand, JAC informs me Griselinia is not particularly coastal, it is also the less common genus for the Physalacria . https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=griselinia+littoralis#tab_mapView The commoner hosts are Pseudopanax crassifolius & Ps. arboreus : https://avh.ala.org.au/occur...

Hi Jerry Cooper has just drawn my attention to this overview of New Zealand Physalacriaceae: https://www.funnz.org.nz/sites/default/files/2016-MycNotes34-Physlacriaceae_1.pdf Although it deals with a mycota literally a world away it still makes interesting reading and much is relevant to GB & I. Not...

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