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Saturday 13th April, Cleggan Lodge, Co.Antrim The wonderful spring weather brought a very good turn out for the first outing of the year. The flowers were out, buzzards were getting mobbed in the skies by crows and the sun was shining. Not many fungi though. The recent good weather had made things far too dry, but at least Chris brought a morel, Morchella esculenta, from a flowerbed in Coleraine to show folk what we were hoping (in vain) for. It was a question of hunting to find anything, deciding if things that looked like bird droppings or plaster were myxomycetes or finding tiny tiny fungi to look at (it turned out to be Hemimycena tortuosa). The most eye catching finds were Physisporinus sanguinolentus (it turns bright red on bruising) and the inevitable Hymenochaete corrugata gluing all sorts of delicate hanging branches onto other branches in the hazel. Ascomycetes Bulgaria inquinans Chlorociboria aeruginascens Hypoxylon fuscum Taphrina betulina Xylaria hypoxylon Candle snuff fungus Aphyllophoroid Fungi (brackets etc) Hymenochaete corrugata Peniophora limitata Physisporinus sanguinolentus Piptoporus betulinus Stereum hirsutum Stereum rugosum Trametes versicolor Boletes and Agarics Coprinus micaceus Hemimycena tortuosa
Saturday May 11, 1pm: Oxford Island National Nature Reserve
Ascomycetes Scutellinia scutellata Aphyllophoroid Fungi (brackets etc) Phellinus igniarius Postia subcaesius Pseudotrametes gibbosa Stereum hirsutum Trametes pubescens Trametes versicolor Boletes and Agarics Agrocybe praecox Calocybe gambosa Coprinus micaceus Mycena pura Psathyrella candolleana Psathyrella spadiceogrisea Gasteroid Fungi Handkea excipuliformis Myxomycetes (Slime moulds) Lycogala epidendrum
Saturday July 27, 1pm: Mourne Park Estate
Ascomycetes Otidea alutacea Peziza vesiculosa Rhytisma acerinum Scutellinia scutellata Tarzetta cupularis Aphyllophoroid Fungi (brackets etc) Cantharellus cibarius Hymenochaete corrugata Trametes versicolor Boletes and Agarics Amanita excelsa Amanita rubescens Boletus calopus Hebeloma crustuliniforme Hypholoma fasciculare Laccaria amethystea Marasmius rotula Mycena pura Oudemansiella mucida Pluteus cervinus Pluteus semibulbosus Psathyrella candolleana Russula fellea Russula mairei Russula ochroleuca Russula romellii Gasteroid Fungi Phallus impudicus Myxomycetes (Slime moulds) Lycogala epidendrum
Saturday August 17, 1pm: Glenmore Wood Heavy showers don't put us off too easily although waterproofs would be handy! In a torrential downpour, we searched gamely for fungi in this small broadleaf wood. We needed to search as there still wasn't a lot out, but we were rewarded with a great find - that of Phylloporus pelletieri, the gilled bolete. Its gills are a spectacular bright yellow and are strongly interveined. Apart from this, it looks just like a Boletus subtomentosus! A first for Ireland. The Russula anthracina is the other interesting record in that it fits anthracina in all regards (large black oil drops in the cap cystidia), but the gills tasted mild. Hence this needs looked at a little more.Ascomycetes Chlorociboria aeruginascens Helvella crispa Helvella lacunosa Leptopodia atra Rhytisma acerinum Rhytisma salicinum Xylaria hypoxylon Aphyllophoroid Fungi (brackets etc) Cantharellus cibarius Hymenochaete corrugata Hymenochaete rubiginosa Postia subcaesia Stereum hirsutum Stereum rugosum Boletes and Agarics Amanita excelsa Collybia confluens Gymnopilus spectabilis Hemimycena tortuosa Hygrocybe conica Hypholoma fasciculare Laccaria laccata Lactarius lacunarum Lactarius subdulcis Marasmius epiphyllus Phylloporus pelletieri Polyporus badius Polyporus varius Russula anthracina Russula cyanoxantha Russula vesca Gasteroid Fungi Scleroderma bovista
Saturday 7th September - Caledon Estate, Co.Armagh Another joint foray with the Armagh group on a taster of autumn - heavy heavy showers. We headed out into the open parkland first looking for ectos under the grand isolated trees. With the wet summer however, it was obvious that all the cattle had been sheltering under the trees for most of the summer and the ground was often heavily trampled. A few species, Russula parazurea, Suillus granulatus were out and an interesting Coprinus, C.romagnesianus were found. We headed into the wood as well which was more profitable with Inocybe fraudans being the best find. Altogether though it was a bit disappointing. The main flush has yet to happen and now the rains are back after a brief dry warm spell, there are high hopes for the next foray in a couple of weeks... Ascomycetes Saturday September 21, 1pm: Larchfield Estate, Co.Down. The sun was splitting the sky as this dry September continued. Foraying was hard work trying to find fungi at all, but in the end the list was long enough. We got lost in the walled garden first of all finding interesting things on wood chips, in the flowerbeds and in the greenhouse. The best finds there were the earthstar, Geastrum striatum and, under the artichokes, the dramatic looking Lacrymaria (Psathyrella) pyrotricha. Some good Russulas, R.subfoetans (going yellow with KOH) and R.graveolans were found along with the strange R.anthracina(?) with mild tasting gills that we found at Glenmore as well. An enormous Amanita inaurata and startlingly red/orange Lactarius fulvissimus were two particularly attractive finds. Many thanks to the estate owners for the juice and goodies beside the swimming pool after the foray. A civilised way to compile finds! AscomycetesDiatrypella favacea Hypoxylon coharens Hypoxylon fragiforme Peziza varia Rhytisma acerinum Rosellinia mammiformis Trochila ilicina Xylaria hypoxylon Xylaria polymorpha Jellies Dacrymyces stillatatus Hirneola auricula-judae Aphyllophoroid Fungi Ceriporiopsis gilvescens Clavulina cinerea Clavulina cristata Ganoderma adspersum Physisporinus vitreus Stereum gausapatum Stereum hirsutum Boletes Boletus chrysenteron Boletus communis Boletus porosporus Agarics Agaricus silvaticus Agaricus silvicola Amanita inaurata Bolbitius vitellina Clitocybe dealbata Collybia confluens Collybia peronata Coprinus lagopus Coprinus micaceus Crepidotus mollis Hypholoma fasciculare Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina Laccaria laccata Lacrymaria lacrybunda Lactarius fluens Lactarius fulvissimus Lactarius subdulcis Lepista inversa Macrolepiota rhacodes Mycena pura Oudemansiella mucida Oudemansiella radiata Psathyrella candeollana Psathyrella pyrotricha Psilocybe semilanceata Russula anthracina Russula caerula Russula cyanoxantha Russula fellea Russula graveolans Russula ochraleuca Russula pectinatoides Russula sericatula Russula subfoetans Russula vesca Stropharia aurantiaca Tricholoma album Volvariella speciosa Gasteroid Fungi Geastrum striatum Lycoperdon perlatum Scleroderma verrucosum Myxomycetes Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa Physarum nutans Symphytocarpus flaccidus Tubifera ferruginosa Saturday October 5 - Sunday October 6:
September had been a very dry month in the north, but it
had obviously been much drier in Westmeath! The ground was dry as a bone and
with the sun splitting the sky it felt like a hot July day! At Cornaher House,
there were few fungi around and it took a lot of hunting to find things. There
was an odd Cortinarius, but it came out as
The forayers getting ready for action
We tried this site as well on the Saturday looking for a wetter wood. It was wetter, but still there were very very few fungi out. The Beefsteak Fungus, Fistulina hepatica and Gymnopus (Collybia) fusipes were the best finds.
Ascomycetes
A huge estate and a much more profitable site. The best finds were the Leucoagaricus badhamii (the redding "Lepiota"
that Peg found) - there are no other Irish records in the BMS database - has anyone seen it before?; the
Hebeloma aestivale (noted by the dextrinoid spores and the loosening periospore - it looked like a thin wavy line or
sack around the spore (also first for Ireland?); Rhodocybe gemina - a
first for Ireland? - the amazing amounts of Geastrum
triplex and the Geastrum striatum. There was also the spectacular Leucocoprinus
cepaestipes in the greenhouse, noted by its brown centre to the cap,
cheilocystidia with extended wavy apex and the cap squamules ending in long
narrow cells. It also strongly yellowed on the stipe and gills, which now the
Flora Agaricina Neerlandica Vol 5 (the Dutch flora) is out with a key to Leucocoprinus
I find occurs with this species. Saturday 19th October - Creighton's Wood Ulster Wildlife Trust Reserve, Kilrea For mid October, this proved to be an unproductive foray as this unproductive year continued. It took a lot of searching to find anything and there were few ectomycorrhizal fungi around at all. It was mostly saprophytes - not our speciality! The wood mainly based on two post glacial ridges was dry and hard going in places. The slimy Cortinarius delibutus was the most interesting ecto, and the other interesting finds were the dark black capped Entoloma myrmecophilum and the myxomycete Diderma globosum with its first Co.Londonderry record. The rest of the list was disappointingly ordinary. Ascomycetes Aphyllophoroid Fungi (Brackets etc)
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