The fungi of Fryerning Churchyard
Scleroderma verrucosum: four growing together close to the main gate on 31.08.01. A good year
for this species in the overall area, being recorded from five sites.
Stropharia aeruginosa: the only record concerns a single specimen growing in a recently
manured flowerbed on 23.08.93.
Stropharia pseudocyanea: one in a sheltered spot by the church porch on 28.09.98 and another.
about ten yards away, on 14.10.01. A scarce species of old grassland. The blue-grccn cap,
fading to white with age; pale brown, white-edged gills; rudimentary ring and peppery smell
appear to be diagnostic of this fungus.
Suillus granulatus; a very common bolete that occurs every year under Scots Pine, often in
considerable numbers. A good ebible fungus but the flavour is nothing to get excited about.
Trametes versicolor: there is only one record of this common species - several extensive tiers
found growing on a fallen Swedish Whitebeam in December 1999 and subsequently.
Tricholoma saponaceum: several widely scattered specimens were found growing in the
Victorian graveyard in October 2001.
Tricholoma virgatum: a group of four were recorded from the Victorian graveyard on 23.09.99.
Tricholomopsis rutilans Plums & Custard: the only record concerns a loose grouping on the
buried roots of a conifer stump on 21.11.94.
Tubaria furfuracea: frequently recorded during the late autumn and winter months throughout the
period.
Vascellum pratense: this common small puffball of old grassland has been recorded twice - on
21.08.98 and 11.11.00.
Xerocomus chrysenteron: frequent, occasionally common - recorded in every year between 1988
and 2001.
Xerocomus porosporus: three together on 18.09.93 and a group of six on 15.09.01, growing
under oak in both instances. This rather scarce bolete is of frequent occurrence in the area as a
whole. The truncate spores arc diagnostic of this species.
Xerocomus subtomentosus: three on 17.09.98, growing under oak and birch.
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