I tried looking for them today. I had found them at the locality before but no luck today. Alders there (most of my finds were from alders but some from hazel as well)

I have seen it just once. It is one of the few species that got a higher local (Czechia) redlist category in 2024 (not counting those not included in 2006 redlist), most went down as the new red list used stricter criteria and also those previously listed got recorded more. From NT to VU.

Last year I found Serpula himantioides going from pinkish crust to meruloid fruiting body. I was a bit proud of myself for recognizing it without seeing the meruloid part (I found it immature for a fungi exhibition in 2022, got it identified by an expert and it stuck.)
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This is one of the genera I can't find. Although I broke the curse with Tulostoma at least this year.

BTW because it's on a plaform owned by a trillion dollar valued company it's blurry when shown as a cover pic.

See also the hilariously unaware tweet from yesterday:

It seems RFM might replace CON, which is kinda deserved for CON, but also currently it seems LAB wants to go with 'still slightly better than RFM' standard. LDM seemed promising at one point but that's long gone. As non-UK I haven't really heard of them recently.

I think Fuljer and Kautmanová might be working on it. I found a Sloval research project on waxcap survey in Slovakia with focus on H. mucronella, H. insipida and H. aurantiosplendens species aggregates. Not sure if anything else have been published by others.

Slyšel jsem o jeho kličkách. Nakonec muselo zasáhnout centrální vedení univerzity, protože v rámci fakulty byl neodvolatelný. Natahal na fakultu svoje podržtašky a své odpůrce buť šikanoval tak, až odešli sami, nebo je třeba administrativně přešoupl na jinou fakultu.

It's more like a bunch of terrorist breaking to the field with automatic guns.

I was told it's a complex of five species, one of them similar to Hygrocybe coccinea.

I'm wondering to what degree is this species frost-resistant. Usually those tiny fungi get destroyed by frost very quickly but I found these recently in good shape even after some light morning frost.

However, a few decades ago Phyllotopsis nidulans used to be considered rare in Czechia (even proposed for legal protection I've heard). It got locally redlisted as NT in 2006 (it had been getting more common by that time). Perhaps it's sensitive to sulphur emissions?
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Currently Phyllotopsis nidulans is common in Czechia. Trying to avoid it during winter fungi walks is like trying to avoid getting "Whammed" listening to the radio during Advent. It grows basically on anything (especially birch, willow and spruce in my experience).
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