Tony Hardware's Fungi Finds: BMS DUMFRIES week 6th

Thursday, 6 November 2025

BMS DUMFRIES week 6th - 12th October. Highlights!

Each year I try to attend the Brit. Mycological Soc. premier field event and managed to avoid illnesses and other mishaps to actually get there this time. I knew I was in for an interesting visit as fungi species have different homes just like you and me and that I should record at least something new. As it happened I was able to ID 24 new species and able to contribute to quite a few records for Dumfries and Galloway. Key finds were a Cortinarius that only at home did I twig that it was something species and then after Geoffrey Kibby confirmed I was correct for Cortinarius cf. citreisporus. This would be the second record for the UK. Problem is that I didn't retain any material thinking it was something lesser at the time. Dope. Another excellent unusual find was to be a poroid stemmed species Coltricia confluens. I am working at the moment with another mycologist as to the exact species found here and a paper is due out early next year. Along with a few other rare UK species such as Russula amethystina, Hydnum ellipsosporum and plenty of difficult Cortinarius such as Cortinarius fuscogracilescens and Cortinarius phaeosmus. Another 17 species were new for the County's also. So without going into more detail I will just add the species here and they can be judged as to how accurate I have been, or not!