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For the past five years I've called this area 'Deciduous fringe of coniferous forestry'. Now that the conifers have been clear-felled, only the fringe remains. It will be interesting to see how this area develops over the next few years.

Dull and wet all day.

Most of the 'amenity' trees are Beech, although there are a few Cypress and a couple of Sweet Chestnut trees. Only one Beech was sacrificed during the felling, and the stump is quite interesting. It looks like one of the younger branches of the tree was assimilated into its trunk about 25 years ago. The main stump has almost 50 rings, and that ties in with the date of the plantation in the 1950's.

There's lots of sawdust left lying around, and that will bring in a flush of wood-rotting fungi next year. In the meantime, I found a few specimens that had survived the saws and tyres:

 

Collybia dryophila.

Crepidotus sp., which is always on wet twigs. Larger specimen about 12mm across.

    

A group of Mycena sp., showing the almost universal dilution of colour as the specimens increase in size.

    

 

And a minute (3mm cap) Mycena growing on Spruce needles.

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