HSS Foray 12-10-13

Continuing on from Steve's blog - here are are few more photographs of what we saw.

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria).

Honey Fungus (Armillaria mellea) - they were found to be covering many of the birches.

Brown Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum).

Ugly Milkcap (Lactarius turpis).

Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) - an aged example with yellowing gills found on Sorbus aucuparia.

Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum).

Peppery Bolete (Chalciporus piperatus) - above and below.

White Saddle (Helvella crispa).

Silky Pinkgill (Entoloma sericeum var. sericeum). 

Petticoat Mottlegill (Panaeolus papilionaceus var. papilionaceus).

Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata).

A grey Lactarius species that we found has puzzled me and I cannot put a name to it.

Foray on 12th October - Callis Wood near Hebden Bridge

Four of us turned up for the annual HSS foray on a rainy day. It was planned to go to Jumble Hole Clough, but Alison had a recce prior to the walk and it wasn't producing many spectacular fungi, so we quickly rearranged to go up the other side of Calder Valley with the agreement of everybody present.

We went up the Pennine Way through Callis Wood. It is also the Pennine Bridleway here and we were passed by several groups of hikers, plus fell runners and a couple of big horses kitted up in long distance tackle, with knee pads; their riders similarly protected against the elements and possible accidents in rocky places.

Callis Wood has the same look as the bottom end of Stoodley Glen, not far away, as it is an open mostly birch wood, grazed between the trees, so it is a pleasant "greenwood" to be in. The cattle, however, poach the ground, which is good for the trees,plants and fungi, but a bit lumpy for walking off the track. Looks like a good wood to hold Wood Warblers if ever they recover their numbers. Perhaps Chiff-chaffs and Willow Warblers nest among the grassy tussocks.

The most predominant fungus was Honey Fungus, which was everywhere in large numbers on stumps and fallen logs. (Armillaria.)

One mushroom I had never seen before was Peppery Bolete Chalciporus piperatus. Roger Phillips writes that it is "Edible with caution, very hot and peppery." Sounds like one for someone hooked on hot chillis and curries as I am, though it wasn't the freshest of specimens so I didn't try it. (See pictures.)

After picnicking on some mossy boulders near the top, we crossed the stream by the little arched bridge, followed the solid rock path along the top of the wood towards Horsehold, took the lanes down into Hebden Bridge, then back to the cars along the canal towpath. There was a Kingfisher near the Stubbing Wharf Pub.

                A selection all of the Peppery Bolete showing its pores, also Alison and her dog Basil.
                           Alison is posting many of the other species we found straight after this.

North Dean Wood 10-10-13

Myself and Peachysteve had a walk around the top side of the wood and managed to find these wonderful fungi below.

Golden Waxcap (Hygrocybe chlorophana).

Shaggy Scalycap (Pholiota squarrosa).

Beech Knight (Tricholoma sciodes). 

Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria).

False Deathcap (Amanita citrina).

Peppery Bolete (Chalciporus piperatus) - and it did taste very peppery too.

Pores of the above.

Bay Bolete (Boletus badius).

Steves photo's below.

Gills of the Ugly Milkcap turned violet when KOH was applied.

Coprinopsis stercorea.

King Alfred's Cakes/Cramp Balls (Daldinia concentrica).

Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma applanatum).

Birch Milkcap (Lactarius tabidus).

Lumbutts Clough 09-10-13

A washed out Stropharia aeruginosa that I found with Johnny and Michael during our walk. It was on my hit list of things to find this year - however, I just wish it in much better condition to show Oliver but he liked it nevertheless.

Verdigris Roundhead (Stropharia aeruginosa).

An edible White Waxcap, or is it the deadly . . .

Edible or deadly ?
(Above and below.)

This was in a Barkisland garden, in fertilised, weedkilled and mown turf. It has appeared on previous years. Seems to contradict the wisdom that the waxcaps only survive in unimproved grassland.

Possibly Hygrocybe virginea Snowy Waxcap which is edible and good, according to Phillips, or is it the deadly Clitocybe dealbata or C.rivulosa described in the same book? Indistinct smell.

Walk to Bradshaw Sunday 6th

Footpath round Ogden Res - unidentified Cortinarius

Top of soil hill - growing on partly buried wood. Unidentified Hypholoma or Pleurotus.
Max 50mm across.  Distinctive cracks in centre of caps.

Plus other better photos than mine over on Calderdale-wildlife. thanks to Charlie.

Mytholmroyd 07-10-13

I just had a walk up to some unimproved pasture land and back down again before I went to meet Steve at Dodge Royd. The Parrot Waxcap was particularly beautiful and Oliver and all his school friends thought it looked amazing and some of them are now asking to come out with us on a foray one day. 

White Spindles (Clavaria fragilis) - above and below.

Brown Cup (Rutstroemia firma)

Magic Mushroom/Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata).

Blackening Waxcap (Hygrocybe conica) - above and below.

Meadow Waxcap (Hygrocybe pratensis) - above and two below.

Parrot Waxcap (Hygrocybe psittacina).

Snowy Waxcap (Hygrocybe virginea)

Jellybaby (Leotia lubrica).

White Saddle (Helvella crispa).

White Coral (Clavulina cristata)

Hardcastle Crags 06-10-13

Michael's brilliant photographic records of his finds in the Crags.

White Coral (Clavulina cristata).

Fairy Inkcap (Coprinellus disseminatus).

Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes).

Beech Milkcap (Lactarius blennius).

Jellybaby (Leotia lubrica).

White Milking Bonnet (Mycena galopus var. candida).

Mycena sp.

Mount Tabor 05-10-13

Michael's records of what he found in on his walk around the tops

Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes).

Snowy Waxcap (Hygrocybe virginea) and Pink Waxcap (Hygrocybe calyptriformis).

Pink Waxcap (Hygrocybe calyptriformis).

False Chanterelle (hygrophoropsis aurantiaca).