Waxcap #16 - Scarlet Waxcap

Usually here in quantities so no surpise that the Scarlet Waxcap has appeared. It was spotted by me today 15th October, last year the first one seen was on 14th October.

Another new Pinkgill species - Cream Pinkgill

What a year for Pinkgills. Another day, another new species and this is a good one - the Cream Pinkgill (Entoloma sericellum).

Major New Species - Big Blue Pinkgill

It's been a great year for Pinkgills but even so I would never have expected to find the elusive Big Blue Pinkgill here (Entoloma bloxamii). At first I thought it was another Mealy Pinkgill as it is on the brownish side of blue rather than steel blue as some of them are. However the stipe was definitely blue and further consideration with the help of our local expert identified the specimen as the Big Blue Pinkgill. This year has been superb for fungi so far - particularly Pinkgills.

Waxcap #15 - Earthy Waxcap

This was an exciting find as I don't see it very often here. In fact this is the first time I have seen it in the West Field. Just a single specimen so maybe it is a developing organism still in that field. For the first time I tested the base of the stip and after bruising it I got the faint red colouration that Boertmann mentions.

waxcap #14 Parrot Waxcap

Has sprung up in East, South and West Fields. The first one I saw was particulalry orange and pink.

Waxcap #13 - Cedarwood Waxcap

Smell gives it away! Cuphophyllus russocoriacea is around and about in the West Field.

New Species - Entoloma juncinum

It's been quite a year for Pinkgills and I have managed to id another new on for The Beeches list. I was surprised to find a long narrow yellow-brown stipe on what had appeared to be a faded C. flavipes next to other flavipes specimens. It turned out to be E. juncinum (no English name).