Red data list

[descry0]

Does anyone know where you can report a red data list mushroom?

I'm pretty sure I've found a load of Tawny Bolete/Boletus moravicus. I'm afraid I excitedly picked a few of them thinking they were edible Boletus......

The picks are a little dull - they were much more lemon-yellow tubes with a lighter tawny/yellow cap and unchanging when cut. Found in parkland. Pretty spot on the Roger Phillips description.

I'll get the images up sharpish!

 

[descry0]

here they are

 

[Toddy]

I don't know, but if no one answers this shortly, it might be an idea to contact the British Mycological Society, surely someone there ought to know ?

http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/about.asp


Nice find if it is what you suspect.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[descry0]

thanks.

But looking at the pics again I'm not as convinced now.

 

[Toddy]

May be just as well...........I don't know about fungi, and I apologise wholeheartedly if I'm wrong, but are Red list things not supposed to be left entirely alone ?
Bit late I suppose though if it's already in the collecting basket and sitting in the kitchen next to the ID books, right enough
Hard one that.

cheers,
M

 

[xylaria]

You take a clean spore print ie cover the specium with glass, and then contact the recorder of you local fungi group. i am going through the same thing after finding some truffles on my allotment. Fungi groups are normally allied to the wildlife trusts in the area. If you aren;t sure post up on wild about britian, they will ID it, tell you who your nearest recorder is and you will on one of their walks by the end of the day.

 

[descry0]

Your completely right. Red list are very rare and must not be disturbed.
A definite wake up call for me on the foraging. I hate the idea of making a situation worse.

Has this been talked about on threads before? Its an odd one for me - I don't always have a good reference on me when foraging and with boletus I expect most, though not all, to be edible and so often take samples. But, I also feel passionate about conservation. So, must I be less instinctive?

 

[Toddy]

I was talking about collecting fungi and lichens for dye with one of the local countryside rangers who specialises in these. He said of the fungi that so long as I don't damage the mycellium (I think that's how it's spelled) then the fruiting bodies are just that. Like flowers of a perennial plant kind of thing.

cheers.
Toddy

 

[badgeringtim]

There are Biological Record Centres in most counties of england.
These are the best place to register any species identification especially those of protected or a rare nature.
Some of the record centres are a bit Heath Robinson but others are excellent.

Some areas have individual recorders for species or groups but these would be known through tthe records centre. The best thing is these records then become available for other people, and if something rare is found these stand a chance of being taken into account on local plans etc.

 

[bert333]

Go 'shroom hunting in France!
it's great, when you've bagged enough, go to the village/topwn's pharmacist and he'll (she'll) remove the poisonous/dubious ones for you.
Pharmacist must also study mycology to become one- and its free.
Custom dictates you give a enough ( of the good ones) for 2 people's dinner

 

[descry0]

That's fantastic Bert!!

.....I want to be a pharmacist in rural France!

 

[rancid badger]

Try contacting Gordon Simpson via Kielder District, Forestry Commission

He's a bit deaf now, as he's getting on a bit but I'm sure if you can contact him, he'll do all he can to help.

atb

R.B.