{"id":2722,"date":"2014-11-07T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T11:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2014-11-07T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T11:04:39","slug":"nettlebed-woods-2-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdnhs.org.uk\/blog\/nettlebed-woods-2-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Nettlebed Woods – 2 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gordon Crutchfield led a fungus foray in Nettlebed Woods on Sunday 2nd<\/sup> November. After the driest September on record and a mild October, the fungus season was running very late, but recent rain had brought out an abundance of fungi and there was so much to look at that it took a long time to move any distance from the cars. Commonest species was the Butter Cap Collybia butyracea<\/em>, which emerged in lines from the Beech litter. Other early finds included the pale yellow False Death Cap Amanita citrina, <\/em>pink Rosy Bonnet Mycena rosea, <\/em>purple Amethyst Deceiver Laccaria amethystea <\/em>with widely spaced gills and the Red Cracking Bolete Boletus chrysenteron. <\/em>Two species with particularly slimy caps were the Ivory Woodwax Hygrophorus eburneus <\/em>and the Beech Milkcap Lactarius blennius. <\/em>A striking greenish-grey fungus was the Aniseed Funnel Clitocybe odora. <\/em>Gordon demonstrated how the stem of Saffrondrop Bonnet Mycena croccata <\/em>exudes an orange-staining liquid.<\/p>\n

The party headed deeper into the woods, but soon realised that there was a greater variety of fungi closer to the road, perhaps caused by extra moisture splashed up by passing cars. The most unusual find of the afternoon was Lepiota ignivolvata, <\/em>found near a tree stump, which had an orange band on the ring round the stem. Next to a fallen log were a number of Wood Blewits Lepista nuda, <\/em>which would have been good to eat when younger. A number of large yellow slugs were seen during the afternoon and some were feeding on the fungi. Several clumps of the densely-branched Upright Coral Ramaria stricta <\/em>were found, with pale yellow tips to the brownish-fingers. The walk continued to the far edge of the wood, where Scaly Earthball Scleroderma verrucosum<\/em> and the orange Larch Bolete Suillis grevillei <\/em>were amongst the finds.<\/p>\n