fungi on a beech

[slasherscot]

what have we here.....

[sloth]

Young pholiota aurivella, very fresh

[David Humphries]

Young pholiota aurivella, very fresh

 

 

Good call on it beiing Pholiota, but squarrosa not aurivella.

 

 

Pholiota squarrosa - Shaggy Scalycap - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists

 

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[sloth]

I did think squarrosa but with it being on beech I thought it more likely aurivella. I thought maybe the scales on the cap must wash off very quickly. What makes you so sure, does aurivella not have recurved scales on the cap? Blurry scales on stipe?

[David Humphries]

I did think squarrosa but with it being on beech I thought it more likely aurivella. I thought maybe the scales on the cap must wash off very quickly. What makes you so sure, does aurivella not have recurved scales on the cap? Blurry scales on stipe?

 

seen fairly often on beech in my experience.

 

The scales (squamules) are far more pronounced on squarrosa than on aurivella, and tend to persist.

 

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[slasherscot]

cheers u 2

[sloth]

Nicely illustrated, much obliged

[David Humphries]

Nicely illustrated, much obliged

 

 

I do try

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Young pholiota aurivella, very fresh

 

I dunno, squamules versus scales my boy!

[JimM]

Plenty around this beech on the Dava Way in Moray. Severe dieback above with the majority of limbs hosting clusters of Oyster.

 

The beech 10 yards away had a completely different visitor in abundance.