30th September |
A nearby lawn and a wooded verge about 100m from my house.
Mostly sunny with pulses of showers. |
Hygrocybe conica is commonly known as the Blackening Waxcap. The image on the right shows why.
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On the same lawn I spotted a few clusters of Clavaria acuta - a pure white fungus about 7 cm. tall.
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These looked like tiered clusters of mushrooms, but they're all fruiting caps of a single specimen of Meripilus giganteus about 40 cm across. The individual cap on the left (underside shown) is about 10 cm across. The cream pores bruise dark black.
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While I was taking the above pictures, I spotted a Common Figwort starting to flower again. I always think the flowers are interesting, if foul-smelling. Individual flowers about 5mm across. |