http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/ LondonFungi Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:41 GMT Hilary Brindley http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1024 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1024 Thanks Ted; it does! Hilary ... From: Edward Tuddenham To: londonfungi@... Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:18 PM Subject: RE: [londonfungi] Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:16:30 GMT Edward Tuddenham http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1023 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1023 Funga nordica states the spore deposit of Lepista saeva to be pale pinkish and that of L. nuda to be pinkish. Having just spent 35 pounds on a copy of CABI's Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:34:03 GMT Hilary Brindley http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1022 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1022 HI Pat- me again. I've now had a proper look at the books; the blewitts I've seen in the park over the last few years have all been L saeva, growing on open Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:40:16 GMT Edward Tuddenham http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1021 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1021 Still no show. It might work if you could send it direct to Keir or me on our own email address and we post it on the site. I am getting a note at the bottom Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:05:07 GMT Brian Wurzell http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1020 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1020 Thanks, Keir and Ted, for responding to my "Orange Fungus" post whose picture was mysteriously chopped off the message. I realise that everyone has been Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:07:39 GMT Hilary Brindley http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1019 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1019 Thanks Pat; just what I thought! But - no pink spores. However, there are now a good many Blewitts in the park, and the one I tested last night had white Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:44 GMT Pat http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1018 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1018 The violet one looks like a blewitt but presumably you have ruled that out? Nice to see a lot of fungi anyway! Pat Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:34:24 GMT hilary.brindley@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1017 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1017 I'm still thinking about this bracket! Keir has found one picture of I. hispidus which resembles it: I've only found many which don't look like it at all. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:26:32 GMT http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1016 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1016 Reminder from: londonfungi Yahoo! Group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/cal Ashtead Common foray(ish) Saturday 21 November 2009 10:30 - 16:30 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:22:24 GMT Hilary Brindley http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1015 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1015 Thanks Ted I've just found 4 specimens of Helvella crispa in the park; another first! I've noticed that lots of leaves are still lying all over the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:19:35 GMT Hilary Brindley http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1014 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1014 ... From: Edward Tuddenham To: londonfungi@... Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:24 PM Subject: RE: [londonfungi] Another mystery My caption was Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:27:48 GMT Brian Wurzell http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1013 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1013 Hi everyone,   A friend has just sent me this lovely photo of a bright orange little fungus. It appeared this week in a window box on her balcony at Ferry Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:12 GMT Andy http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1012 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1012 Hi Ted, I have to say that Hygrophoropsis is not that uncommon in the London area, I had it a few weeks ago from Hampstead Heath and I regularly get it from Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:24:22 GMT Edward Tuddenham http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1011 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1011 My caption was Polyporus squamosus Dryad's saddle. About False Chantarelle, this has now turned up Finsbury Park, Ruskin Park and a National Trust Nature Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:52:54 GMT hilary.brindley@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1010 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/londonfungi/message/1010 Thanks Keir & Ted; I can't find your legend Ted! The Chicken of the Woods I've seen in the park is a lot yellower than this one, but you've both had a lot more