A fungal foray at Ards Forest park with the NIFG.
Overcast with an eventual downpour that terminated proceedings.
This Entoloma serrulatum was pale blue on the upper surface.
This is the Hare's Ear - Otidea onotica. It grows under Beech. Sample about 3.5 cm. tall.
This Tricholoma sulphurea smells strongly of coal-gas. Not much mistaking that one. Cap about 6 cm. across.
I liked this pair of fungi from one of the darkest parts of the forest. The orange specimen is a waxcap - maybe Hygrocybe miniata, with a very small Amethyst Deceiver growing under it.
This is a rather large waxcap - Hygrocybe pratensis. It tends to grow in fields, but this was at the edge of a relatively young deciduous plantation. Cap about 6 cm. across.
Three pictures of a tiny Mycena growing on the cone of a Cypress. The cone shown is about 15 mm. across. The close-up of the smallest specimen shows that the whole fungus is transparent. The size of that one makes it smaller than a pin-head. Maybe Resinomycena saccharifera.
