On Monday 27th October in the half-term holiday Michael Senkans, the SCC bio-diversity officer led a walk in Burngreave cemetery, searching for mushrooms.
Over twenty people of all ages took part and to their delight found 31 different kinds Also all different to the 25 species found last year.
This years list is as follows
Burngreave Cemetery Public Fungi Walk (SK360892) / 27.10.2014
Species identified & compiled by M. Senkans (SCC Biodiversity Monitoring Officer)
Ochre brittlegill – Russula ochroleuca
Ugly milkcap – Lactarius turpis
Meadow waxcap – Hygrocybe pratensis
Snowy waxcap – Hygrocybe virginea
Nitrous bonnet – Mycena leptocephala
Ivory bonnet – Mycena flavoalba
Cavalier species – Melanoleuca sp.
The deceiver = Laccaria laccata
Knight species – Tricholoma sp.
False chanterelle – Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
Earthy powdercap – Cystoderma amianthinum
Fly agaric – Amanita muscaria
The blusher – Amanita rubescens
The miller – Clitopilus prunulus
Blewit species – Lepista sp.
Pinkgill species – Entoloma sp.
Brown rollrim – Paxillus involutus
Poisonpie species – Hebeloma sp.
Bell species – Galerina sp.
Blushing wood mushroom – Agaricus silvaticus
Field mushroom – Agaricus campestris
Rootlet brittlestem – Psathyrella microrhiza
Brittlestem species – Psathyrella sp.
Common inkcap – Coprinus atramentarius
Pleated inkcap – Coprinus plicatilis
Cep / penny bun – Boletus edulis
Peppery bolete – Chalciporus piperatus
Smoky bracket – Bjerkandera adusta
Puffball species – Lycoperdon sp.
Puffball speces – Bovista sp.
Scaly earthball – Scleroderma verrucosum
Common earthball – Scleroderma citrinum
Moor club – Clavaria argillacea
Yellow club – Clavulinopsis helvola
Sycamore tarspot – Rhytisma acerinum
White saddle – Helvella crispa
Coral spot – Nectria cinnabarina
