Tony Hardware's Fungi Finds: NOVEMBER 2025 - Uncommon to rare species recorded this month

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

NOVEMBER 2025 - Uncommon to rare species recorded this month

The fall off of fungi this month was quicker than expected with waxcaps being very low on making appearances during several attempts. A visit to Painswick Cemetery found Incoybe tenebrosa as well as a 3rd record for Gloucs. in Entoloma fernande growing in a shaded area of Pinus needles. This was noted for its frosting edge of the cap towards the margin which is quite unusual for this genus. A short visit back to Ebworth NT found next to nothing which I had undertaken as a recce for a Foray the following weekend. It was devoid of fungi and so had to cancel the event, but on the way out I did come across a single Woodwax species in Hygrophourus cossus, recognised by not reacting to KOH. At Hailey's Woods near Cirencester, again not much at all except coming across what would be a 1st for Gloucs and West of England in Gymnopus fagiphilus. Only 17 other UK records, this can be recognised by its macro due to distinct yellow browning hairs on the stem. Most unusual. Hyphodermella corrugata was found on Fagus at Cirencester Woods and would be the 3rd record for Gloucs. This has stick like crystals forming cordons on the hyphae looking like cystidia. A fungi survey for the National Trust at Snowshill (North Gloucs.) didn't produce a great deal except a few Rickenella swartzii, not that uncommon but new to me! Also found here was a Blue Roundhead, but the lesser common species in Stropharia aeruginosa helped by the size and shape of the cystidia. Lastly, Galerina sideroides was found in Wilts. at the wonderful Somerford Common Woods. This species becoming more common each year, being quite rare 10 years ago.