The fungi of Fryerning Churchyard
Mycena aetitis; 3-4 recorded in short mossy turf on 07.11.00.
Mycena flavoalba: frequent to common most years.
Mycena inclinata: two large clumps on buried wood on 26.11.99.
Mycena stylobates: several on plant debris under roadside hedge on 11.11.97.
Paneolus ater: first recorded growing in manured soil on a grassy flowerbed on 01.10.96. Tony
Boniface found it to be common in October 2001.
Paxillus involutus: frequent to common most years, usually under birch.
Pleurotus ostreatus Oyster Mushroom: occasional. Excellent eating.
Psathyrella candolleana; occasional.
Psathyrella lacrymabunda Weeping Widow: frequent, occasionally common.
Psilocybe, montana: several growing among Polytrichum juniperinum along one of the paths on
27.02.96.
Rhizina undulata: one large patch growing under Corsican Pine on 24.10.00.
Russula aeruginea: 3-4 together under birch on 30.10.99 and again in the same area on 21.10.01.
Russula betularum: several under birch on 29.09.00 and again the following September.
Russula coerulea (= amara): a beautiful species with a glossy, umbonate, dark purple-crimson
cap and creamy yellow gills. Found growing under Scots Pine on 27.09.01.
Russula cyanoxantha The Sickener: a common species not found for the first time until 19.09.01,
when a half-dozen or so of the dirty green variety were recorded under roadside oaks.
Russula delica: several growing together under oak and birch on 20.09.01.
Russula depallens (-pulchella): three large specimens under birch on 31.0S.01.
Russula heterophylla: several under a mix of broad-leaved trees on 24.10.00 and again on
27.09.01.
Russula luteotacta: 4-5 growing in damp ground under oak and birch on 23.09.95.
Russula ochroleuca; occasional records only; surprising, considering how common it is in the
area as a whole.
Russula pectinatoides: several under a mix of broad-leaved trees and conifers on 22.08.01. This
species gets my vote as the foulest-tasting fungi ever to pass my lips. Oily, rancid and, after a
slow start, hot enough to skin the lining off your cheeks - it is the closest approximation to
what a pickled Cormorant might taste like that I can imagine.
Russula rosea: four very large specimens growing under roadside oaks on 17.10.01.
Russula sanguinea: a beautiful rose-red species that was recorded growing under Scots Pine on
17.09.01.
Russula sororia: three recorded growing under roadside oaks on 19.10.01 at a time when it was
identified at a number of sites in the surrounding area..
Russula velenovskyi; one on 03.12.94 and several, growing under birch, on 27.09.01.
Russula versicolor: several under birch on 30.10.99.
Russula vesca; frequent to common most years, especially in the Norman churchyard.
Scleroderma cepa: a group of five, pushing up through hard stony & sandy ground along one of
the paths on 27.09.01. The tough, leathery, deeply fissured gleba and spores with only isolated
spines appear to be characteristic of this species.
Scleroderma citrinum: surprising uncommon considering its abundance in the area as a whole.
Recorded in five years between 1988 and 2001.
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