Tony Hardware's Fungi Finds: Grenoven Woods, Devon borders Tamar

I joined the Devon Fungus Group in a joint venture with Cornwall RFG, led by Richard Vulliamy with around 15 foragers started off into these beautiful mixed species woodlands. Many species seen by all, but you can't see everything especially as I only accept photographic records from species I find or nearly find! As most pull up the fungi before I can say "Cornish Pasty", then life is more difficult. Still I list here mostly species that I found and some of which turned out to be some of the more unusual finds of the day by some fluke of nature. A bolete I found very early on in a Hazel copse but in very darkened area of woodland caused me some anguish as it could only be a rarer species, and Xerocellus armeniacus came closest to the find and key specs. Note the cracking on unusual pinkish colouration on the cap surface shows cream/yellow flesh not red, as in most common Xerocomus. Would be first for Cornwall and Devon if it was the case. After consulting Kibby I feel this is Hortiboletus (new name) engelii, also not common but at least showing the key markers that the species dosplayed at the time, especially no discolouration whne the flesh was cut. Also in full view of the footpath and on beech litter I found several rare Russula's called Sunny Brittlegill or Russula solaris. You only have to see the species and even as in the photo to see how the bright lemon stood out amongst the litter and was almost like a torch buried on the ground. Oddly not seen by many as all finishing their sandwiches. Normally a practice that I follow religiously. At the end of the trail you come across one of the oldest but largest mines in the world (in the middle of the 19th century) here. Amazing to see how much remains of the workings and how they shifted from copper to extract arsenic for world consumption at the time. Not for humans of course but for insect control in the USA at the time.