26 February 2011 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Plano-convex, with a small peak at the centre, becoming depressed with age, scurfy, margin lined, scalloped, dark blue grey when young, then paler, often with green hues, to about 2 cm across Gills Decurrent, distant, pale blue grey Stem Equal, slender, smooth, concolorous with the cap Flesh Thin Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Late winter to early spring Distribution Very rare Habitat On sandy soil with mosses and lichens Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, smooth (7-9.5) x (3.5-5.5) µm2 Edibility Unknown Notes See also Boomsluiter in Field Mycology 7(2). I am grateful to David Edington and Nick Cantle for providing me with the location of this very rare fungus. The site was originally found by Nick Cantle. 
12 February 2011 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
20 March 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
31 January 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |