23rd October |
More fungi (what else at this time of year?) This time from our highest local point. Recently harvested forestry.
Bright and dry. |
I spotted this little (8mm.) Lycogala sp. - a slime mould on a dead stump. The little balls
opened to reveal a pinkish spore powder.
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This little (2 cm.) mushroom - Clitocybe fragrans - varies dramatically in colour depending on whether it is dry or wet. The specimen shown is drying from the centre. It has an overwhelming odour of aniseed. I have a single specimen making a spore print, and I can smell it from the next room.
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Coriolus versicolour is a bracket fungus that forms thin layers.
The second photograph is an underside shot of three specimens. Specimens
shown about 8 cm. across.
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An underside picture of Sulphur Tufts. Does the picture work? I'm not quite sure. |
Stumps of dead wood are often decorated with Dacrymyces stillatus. It looks like wax dripped from an orange candle. |