15th November |
High Heath.
Cloudy and dull. |
New growth of the lichen Peltigera membranacea - Rabbits-paw Lichen - looks very unlike your normal lichen: it's soft and fuzzy. The older growth to the right of the image shows the characteristic orange Peltigera fruit-bodies which throw out pure fungal spores. This one's on moss on the base of a Willow trunk. Peltigera sp. - Dog Lichens - as a whole, seem to be relatively untouched by caterpillars and slugs. Maybe they have some kind of chemical protection. But I bet there's a fungal parasite. |
A bunch of Sulphur Tufts just past their best. They appear to be growing on a dead thistle, but there will be some dead wood under there somewhere. |
While I was down taking the Peltigera I spotted this tiny (1 cm. tall) fungus growing out of the moss on the Willow trunk. I've stared at it for a while, now, and I think it's a very young Mycena inclinata. |
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