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Wednesday 1 October 2014

Velvet Shield - Park wood.

I went looking for the Parasitic Boletes today in Park wood, Elland, without any luck but did find some nice fungi. Pick of the bunch I think were these Velvet Shields (Pluteus umbrosus).

The caps had a lovely, velvet appearance and the gills were pinkish, dark-edged and free. I feel confident on the ID but if anyone knows different please let me know.



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  1. Alison1 October 2014 at 21:51

    Thumbs up, I agree.

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  2. charlie streets2 October 2014 at 07:28

    Okay Ali, that's great.

    I've just been looking at the Fungal Records Database of Britain & Ireland and there's only seven VC63 records of this species and none for Calderdale. Has anyone recorded here recently?

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  3. Peachysteve4 October 2014 at 07:22

    Seen recently in Dodge Royd Wood. Same site also had fruiting bodies last year.
    Don't think I have seen them anywhere else.

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  4. charlie streets4 October 2014 at 15:01

    Nice one Steve! I quite like these fungi, the cap and gills are quite distinctive and they're fairly straight forward to ID as well.

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  6. Peachysteve5 October 2014 at 07:36

    They are very beautiful. The first time I saw them they were covered in rain drops and were very striking.

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  7. Alison7 October 2014 at 10:45

    I saw them with Steve too but I don't know why I haven't put them on the blog. I shall go through my photographs and try and find one.

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  8. charlie streets8 October 2014 at 08:27

    Okay, so basically everyone's seen some!!

    And here's me thinking I'd found a mega-rare mushroom, oh well :-)

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