Thursday, November 20, 2014

Fine fungi

After a bit of a slow start here, the crop of interesting autumn fungi is beginning to improve, no doubt because of recent rain. We found these three species in the Tyne valley near Wylam today. 















Variable oysterling Crepidotus variabilis, growing on dead gorse stem
















Beech woodwort Hypoxylon fragiforme, looking very like Christmas baubles. Growing on a fallen tree trunk.














Purple jellydisc Ascocoryne sarcoides, looking like something that belongs on a butcher's slab. Growing on a fallen tree trunk.
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8 comments:

  1. LindaNovember 20, 2014 at 6:44 PM

    Lovely series.

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    1. PhilNovember 20, 2014 at 9:24 PM

      Thanks Linda, for the comment and for visiting

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  2. ADRIANNovember 21, 2014 at 3:21 AM

    These are excellent. It hasn't been a good fungi season but there is still time.

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    1. PhilNovember 22, 2014 at 10:05 AM

      This mild, wet, foggy weather seems to encourage them

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  3. Simon Douglas ThompsonNovember 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM

    Fabulous images. I never see many where my creamcrackerednature blog runs to, as I tend not to run through much woodland. Shaggy ink caps punching through people's driveways the most common things I see.

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    1. PhilNovember 22, 2014 at 10:06 AM

      Shaggy ink cap is a lovely toadstool - seems to like to colonise disturbed soil. Often see it on road verges after road works.

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  4. Amanda PetersNovember 21, 2014 at 9:19 PM

    Great photos, been out in the park to day and still very few fungi about..
    Amanda xx

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    1. PhilNovember 22, 2014 at 10:07 AM

      Some of them are very short-lived, here-today-gone-tomorrow, especially the more delicate species that grow in grass.

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