XPost: alt.nature.mushrooms@news.plus.net   
   From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   On 22/10/2023 07:29, real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > Saturday, October 21, 2023  at 15:47, RustyHinge wrote:   
   > Re: ? (at least in part)   
   >   
   >> On 21/10/2023 15:36, real_grizz_adams@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   >>> Saturday, October 21, 2023  at 2:02, RustyHinge wrote:   
   >>> ? (at least in part)   
   >   
   >>>> Anyone left alive in here?   
   >   
   >>> Still here but not had a question of late   
   >   
   >> Everyone-else *seems* 'late'...   
   >   
   >> We've had a bit of rain (!) and I think I can speak for anyone in UK. I   
   >> wonder how soon fruitbodies will mushroom ? (Sorry)!   
   >   
   > here (also UK) mushrooms seem syclic, one year there are a lot then nothing   
   (or   
   > close to) for a year or two, we do get the odd (read not he usual) fungi turn   
   > up then never again, i.e   
   >   
   > a gient puffball "once" it had already been knocked off it base when I found   
   it   
   > so didn't get eaten, I've kept an eye out but not seen again   
   >   
   > and another year a large brown Boletus (that I didn't recognise) bright   
   Yellow   
   > flesh that turned "marker pen" blue when cut, again only seen once   
      
   Indeed: for several years a clone of a mushroom I didn't recognise   
   continued to flourish in abundance. I couldn't find it in any of my   
   illustrated books. In the end, one of my friends started a mushroom   
   mailing-list which I joined. I posted pics of the mushroom and within 20   
   minutes I had two replies, both from German mycologists: "It's Rhodocybe   
   gemina".   
      
   I have about a yard and a half of mycolological books and in only one   
   was the genus mentioned, and in none the species.   
      
   It's the only known clone in Norfolk, though a *very* old report of R.   
   truncata (once used to cover R. gemina) told of a clone on Thompson Common.   
      
   Have only seen one fruitbody in the last five years.   
      
      
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