Showing posts with label Hypholoma marginatum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hypholoma marginatum. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Local Fungi

With fungi, you sometimes just have to stare at them blankly for a while and then a picture suddenly forms in your mind and a possible identification suggests itself. I went through and rejected quite a few possibilities for this one before I hit on Cortinarius. When I got back to the books it was clearly one of the Dermocybe group, and the yellow gills indicate that it's Cortinarius croceifolius (now Cortinarius malicorius) - a Salix associate, which would fit perfectly.

The dotted margin for this one points us towards Hypholoma marginatum:


This little group of Collybia dryophila caught my eye: