Months observed
The scurfy deceiver
Laccaria proxima
An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015
Fungi
Cap to 5 cm in diameter, domed, pinkish orange, drying paler; with a finely but distinctly scurfy surface; without radial banding. Gills rather thick and waxy, decurrant, flesh-coloured and unbranched. Stalk long and widening slightly towards base; orange-brown to red-brown and finely fibrilose with fibres usually twisted; with white flecks; no ring; fine short white hyphae at base. Spore print white.
In grass beside trellis near hazel tree.