tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54604538971554679462024-03-12T17:47:16.659-07:00FungiworldA blog to complement my website
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fungiworld is a photographic website showing clear close-up images of British Fungi.
Regular posts and news, and also updates regarding the images I add to the website.Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-78343402480940136742022-01-04T04:10:00.002-08:002022-01-04T04:25:41.691-08:00Astromyxin - Star Jelly (Astral Jelly)<p><br /></p><p><u><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Astromyxin - Star Jelly (Astral Jelly)</span></span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">On Boxing Day I visited my family in Derbyshire. I have to thank my brother for pointing out this jelly substance on the lawn whilst letting out the dog</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The weather had recently been very wet and about 5 separate blobs of this transparent jelly appeared on the lawn. Each blob (irregular margin) measured about 5-10 cm in diameter. It looked like frogspawn but without the black tadpole, felt like frogspawn, and had no odour. Also, I noted, it was not attached in anyway and could be scooped up intact.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It looked like a fungus that grows on dead and rotting branches called Tremella mesenterica and crossed my mind that perhaps it had fallen from a branch onto the lawn, although that would be a rare. However, there were no trees nearby. I then wondered if it could be a slime mould (a simple fungus).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>I've subsequently done some research and here is more about this Star Jelly. </span> </span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>Dr David Genny a fungi expert with the Scottish Natural Heritage leans towards</span> a Slime Mould which is a single cell organism.</span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The Scotland Outdoor Teams sent a sample to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. It was deduced that it was neither animal or plant. Some green algae cells were found within the jelly. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Dr Hans Sluiman confirmed that there were green algae cells called diatoms contained within the jelly but from the sample he deduced it was neither animal or plant. Another sample was then given to Dr Andy Taylor of the McCauley Institute who also examined the jelly under a microscope and found possible fungal filaments, bacteria and unfertilised eggs which were though to be from a frog. Also some DNA was extracted for analysis and then compared with a National Database where a match with a mould was found but this was thought not to be the answer as it was growing on the jelly. After looking at all the various possibilities Taylor opted for the amphibian option. This is a theory that many other experts concur with who suggest that the jelly consists of the remains of the oviducts of frogs which from about Autumn are full of spawn. The <span>frogs have then been predated and the oviducts left, possibly because the predators found it distasteful?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">So there you go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> Below are two photographs taken my myself on Boxing Day 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1Jhx6artSb6KpTAhyphenhyphenLdYFAG7kAzjZk5NSMYJarEICCIsUxzKpGdg8D72OrCfQRx0Jz-zi8xMCf8Sr464DK4H9UVSLAZtVOSha2IttwYOKCe84p_4EdppxUXvhWWRZgp7BcHXUw4fY6M/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="1080" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1Jhx6artSb6KpTAhyphenhyphenLdYFAG7kAzjZk5NSMYJarEICCIsUxzKpGdg8D72OrCfQRx0Jz-zi8xMCf8Sr464DK4H9UVSLAZtVOSha2IttwYOKCe84p_4EdppxUXvhWWRZgp7BcHXUw4fY6M/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of Star Jelly</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94FqfBl1BJy04Cv14bqYUPE4Z1IIk31i_BP167V9AJRlkomptIXzOsMad_REBu9mVTWSJDOpZHgid5xlU1BdYydIwpUjaPvQpv9RYkqv9kT20AzZVxAOK1YtZBOjp0PZWhfYtfBOZIzs/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="1080" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94FqfBl1BJy04Cv14bqYUPE4Z1IIk31i_BP167V9AJRlkomptIXzOsMad_REBu9mVTWSJDOpZHgid5xlU1BdYydIwpUjaPvQpv9RYkqv9kT20AzZVxAOK1YtZBOjp0PZWhfYtfBOZIzs/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Group of Star Jelly<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><br /></u></p><p><u><br /></u></p>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-82604195866142183862021-03-19T05:17:00.003-07:002021-03-19T05:17:44.965-07:00Exidia glandulosa - Witches' Butter<p><u><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> Exidia glandulosa - Witches' Butter</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This Spring, I have come across masses and masses of Witches' Butter. Although a common fungi, there can be some seasons whereby there have been no sightings. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It usually grows on the dead wood of deciduous trees and branches so look on the ground too for dead branches and twigs and you may spot it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><u><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Characteristics:</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">2-6 cm across. Disc shaped at first then fusing into gelatinous fused together masses. The upper surface can be velvety. Blackish. When touched it feels jelly like. Common. To be seen all year. Habitat: on dead wood of deciduous trees, sometimes on dead areas of living trees and dead branches on the ground.</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJSf48jtg7ZQcr22jD6GZMBLy37bjnr7TwEuBu6KqTa6A1tXg-cheMJ4m31Nt1F8z-IzdebbJRhcPt3BYpjWaibh5m-OctcnV69DQl2ZfDlwNXaGiuRwz4IvvVBdOW6vnOLWRlRfpJT0/s2048/Witches%2527+Butter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJSf48jtg7ZQcr22jD6GZMBLy37bjnr7TwEuBu6KqTa6A1tXg-cheMJ4m31Nt1F8z-IzdebbJRhcPt3BYpjWaibh5m-OctcnV69DQl2ZfDlwNXaGiuRwz4IvvVBdOW6vnOLWRlRfpJT0/s320/Witches%2527+Butter.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Showing mature example on the point of fusing</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-22100648617430591212020-10-16T03:40:00.003-07:002020-10-17T01:40:10.022-07:00Sparassis crispa - Cauliflower Fungus- Sandringham Estate Park, Norfolk<p><u> <span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Sparassis crispa - Cauliflower Fungus- Sandringham Estate Park, Norfolk</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Just returned from a superb mini break to Norfolk. Perfect time of year (commencement of fungi season) to pay a visit to the magical Sandringham Estate Park, Norfolk. Would definitely return. A great peaceful vibe and variety of trees. A very impressive park with two walks. Sun low in the sky and the wonderful smell of leaf mould and fungal spores - so was hopeful of finding some mushrooms.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cauliflower fungus is, as the common name suggests, resembling a cauliflower. Even the florets and stem on close inspection look like so. The texture is elastic and the mass is tight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><u>Characteristics</u>: large cauliflower mass. Creamy initially but darkening with age. At the base or near conifers. Up to 60 cm diam. Comprising a large number of flattened wavy lobes all joined together from a central stem which is short. Texture firm and elastic. Mild sweet smell. Summer to Autumn. Not common.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIy6kSQiSXFyIzHJJSvw03wJkrDuTarrMpWtDOLYGHPqcy3QbCLrCygKVXkSrNA9LILNmwOZUd9wkarWvNBruHlSbGmzOtWqZVG9ivQ1zsNb4JQpY5CE7lU1htKcwbhnXyiad9Tkcwqdw/s2048/cauliflower+fungus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIy6kSQiSXFyIzHJJSvw03wJkrDuTarrMpWtDOLYGHPqcy3QbCLrCygKVXkSrNA9LILNmwOZUd9wkarWvNBruHlSbGmzOtWqZVG9ivQ1zsNb4JQpY5CE7lU1htKcwbhnXyiad9Tkcwqdw/s320/cauliflower+fungus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-71489898489141306732020-10-03T06:23:00.003-07:002020-10-03T06:27:03.883-07:00Xylaria polymorpha - Dead Man's Fingers<p><u><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> Xylaria polymorpha - Dead Man's Fingers</span></u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In this 'new normal' world of social distancing due to Covid-19, I was in a friends garden as you do these days chatting, and found a super example of Dead Man's Fingers. Certainly at its prime. Black with fine wrinkles and looking like a collection of Fingers at the base of a tree stump.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Characteristics</u>: a fruit body that protrudes from the stumps of trees. The fingers being blunt and up to 8 cm tall and 3 cm wide. The colour can vary from light brown when immature to black at maturity. Texture is hard and tough with fine wrinkles sometimes visible. To be found on stumps of beech trees or nearby.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtFgYhrnyXrEOCZ_0FpTngzTHwAQXlKp01nd3qq8HBKNQ04zpJRxTphZ0WtWk7sNfiMRosDBCxz5zcC6TDATnC9q6U42vU_JV1GtnqvQvapm8dC4L5oy_vNoJR2c6MraJRJNVEKgJY2g/s2048/20200929_150021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtFgYhrnyXrEOCZ_0FpTngzTHwAQXlKp01nd3qq8HBKNQ04zpJRxTphZ0WtWk7sNfiMRosDBCxz5zcC6TDATnC9q6U42vU_JV1GtnqvQvapm8dC4L5oy_vNoJR2c6MraJRJNVEKgJY2g/w320-h180/20200929_150021.jpg" title="Dead Man's Fingers" width="320" /></a></div>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-1514474300741437242020-05-23T01:45:00.002-07:002020-05-23T01:46:45.592-07:00Taking a break<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Taking a break</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am taking a rest, a sort of sabbatical! possibly all Summer, from all things fungi as I contracted Covid-19, and am taking time out to recover. I hope you enjoy the posts to-date.</span>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-75823228489064319472020-03-13T08:45:00.001-07:002020-03-13T08:45:21.958-07:00Trametes versicolor - Turkey Tail<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Trametes versicolor - Turkey Tail</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many of the posts I publish are about the more unusual or uncommon fungi I find on my travels.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This current fungi season has been very poor due to the unusually wet and windy conditions. One fungi I have repeatedly come across this year has been Turkey Tail. It's a very common fungi and this season - it is everywhere! The examples I have seen have been spectacular. Typical of its name - fanning out just like a Turkey Tail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Below are some lovely examples. These show the different and variable colours concentrically zoned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Up to 5 cm across and 0.3 cm thick. Usually to be seen in large groups which form overlapping tiered groups. The colour can be variable but zoned black-green, grey-blue, grey brown, or ochraceous-rust. Whitish margin, tough texture and smoothing with age. To be found on deciduous wood all year. Very common.</span><br />
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A short post about the less obvious fungi that can be seen on tree bark, tree trunks, branches, and logs, all of which can be either dead or alive, or in the process of dying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of course there are the obvious brackets which can grow to huge sizes, and have a tendency to grow in tiers, as well as individually. But sometimes overlooked are the flat, crusty fungi, that can grow on smooth branches or be found in tree trunk crevices. These can vary in colour from white, buff, brown to black, ochre, or even pallid purple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hyphodontia sambuci is one such fungus. It is white, and resembles white matt paint slapped on a tree trunk. The texture is slightly chalky and has an irregular margin. It has no particular odour, and favours elder but can also grow on other wood or broad-leaf trees. Mostly to be seen during late Summer to Autumn but can also be seen throughout the year. It is common.</span><br />
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<u></u><span style="color: #990000;"></span>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-82041792280569919362019-12-28T00:35:00.003-08:002019-12-28T00:38:58.483-08:00Hair Ice <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></b>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My closing post of 2019. What is Hair Ice? A fascinating process whereby a fungus called Exidiopsis effusa* grows on dead wood and if the conditions are ripe - which is humid air on winter nights whereby the temperature is below 0 degrees C. The action of the fungus enables ice to form thin hairs. The thin hairs melt when the temperature rises. The Ice Hair can form without the presence of Exidiopsis effusa but there would be the absence of the hair like structure and instead the texture would look more crusty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This Hair Ice process was brought to my attention by a lady who sent me a lovely photograph of it which she came across when out walking. Please see the photograph below and huge thanks to </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">J King for undertaking some research and sending me her photograph so that we can all wonder at this lovely natural process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last Friday I received an email from a lady in Southern England. She was curious about a mushroom growing on a log. I studied the photos but the fungus was immature and so all the characteristics were not visible. I requested if possible an update with photos a few days later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It became clear then, that the mushroom was an Oyster Mushroom. Normally Pleurotus ostreatus caps can be variable in colour from light grey/dark grey/light brown/dark brown. But these caps are almost black. There is a Pleurotus ostreatus with a blue/grey cap called var. columbinus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is uncertain without analysis if this is a true Blue Oyster mushroom var. columbinus, or just Pleurotus ostreatus with a black cap, but the photos are very good indeed and show the amazing structure of this beautiful mushroom and also the variations in the cap colour of this species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Below are some photographs showing its growth progress over several days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With very grateful thanks to J. Warren.</span><br />
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<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-17611896916090824822019-10-31T07:51:00.001-07:002019-10-31T08:16:12.914-07:00Hemimycena<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hemimycena </span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I took a stroll around my local cemetery the other day. Beautiful sunny day and just the right damp conditions. I've mentioned before that cemeteries have really good habitat for mushrooms to flourish because they have lots of different trees and are well established.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That day I saw some perfect white mushrooms growing in pine needle litter. Great for photographing as they were in their prime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cap up to 1.5 cm across, firstly conical then bell-shaped and can flatten. The margin becomes wavy with maturity. Chalk white, with a more pale/cream centre. The gills are white and quite crowded. Stem is white and has white fibres at the base. No odour. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Grows in large groups amongst pine needles and other debris. Summer to Autumn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are several that can grow either in conifer or pine needles. Lactea, cucullata, pithya and pseudogracilis. With the absence of analysis with this I cannot determine which precisely it is.</span><br />
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Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-16042149867237502532019-10-24T00:56:00.000-07:002019-10-24T00:56:58.210-07:00Hygrocybe psittacina - Parrot Waxcap<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hygrocybe psittacina - Parrot Waxcap</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A simple stroll turned into something a little more special last week. I was admiring some fungus growing in some moss on a quiet suburban street and was approached by a lovely couple who invited me to take a look in their garden at the abundance of mushrooms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I discovered a Parrot Waxcap aptly named after the green/yellow/red colours of parrots.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It really is quite a lovely fungus and this was my first sighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cap up to 3 cm across, firstly convex or bell-shaped and then more flat with a broad umbo. Also firstly, it has a greenish hue, slowly turning more yellow with a pinkish stain on or near the centre of the umbo. The texture of the cap is waxy/greasy/gluten-like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The gills are broad, with a yellowish staining at the edge. The stem is yellow, greenish/blue and it smells mealy. It grows in grass on lawns or heaths - Summer to late Autumn. Waxcaps thrive in natural habitat and are prone to being affected by fertilizers. Therefore they are not as common as previously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the common name indicates this mushroom is very poisonous. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It contains the same toxins as the</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Amanita phalloides </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Death Cap mushroom. Also, i</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">t can easily be mistaken for Kuehneromyces mutabilis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is not rare but not so common either. To be found on stumps and logs of broad-leaf trees. I discovered a little group on the Clifton side of the River Trent, Nottinghamshire. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The striking feature for me is the striate and significant ring for such a delicate looking mushroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Characteristics: cap yellowish/tan up to 6.5 cm across. Gelatinous, slight umbo, smooth textured. Drying more yellowish. Gills concolorous with the cap, crowded. Stem also concolorous with the cap but darker tan below the ring. The stem being slender and equal and fibrous. The ring is superior, prominent, brown, striate/fibrous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The odour is faint, mealy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It looks an innocent little mushroom, but clearly looks can be deceptive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you to Howard Williams for helping me to identify this mushroom.</span><br />
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<u><br /></u>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-35021775167040312712019-09-18T08:10:00.000-07:002019-09-18T08:10:07.259-07:00Oudemansiella mucida - Porcelain Fungus<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oudemansiella mucida - Porcelain Fungus</span></u><br />
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I have to give credit to my son for finding this beautiful little fungus. Whilst I was busy photographing a Russula he had spotted some huge brackets and then saw the Porcelain Fungus growing in profusion on a large dead beech tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having always admired the delicate beauty of this fungus in books, it was just great to see it first-hand. We spent a long time taking photos of this discovery at various stages from very young to mature. Both of us captivated by it. It is like pure white porcelain that has morphed into a fungus! And just begs to be photographed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Characteristics</u>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cap up to 8 cm across, when young grey, slowly turning white. Semi-translucent, slimy. Looks shiny. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gills distant, pure white. Stem also white, striate above the ring which is membrane like and delicate. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To be found on dead beech in clusters; sometimes large. Later Summer to Autumn. Common.</span><br />
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<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-44246221991657537112019-09-06T01:50:00.001-07:002019-09-06T01:50:42.347-07:00Polyporus loptocephalus - Blackfoot Polypore<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Polyporus loptocephalus - Blackfoot Polypore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only my second sighting of this little Polypore. The first being on a golf course in Angus Scotland several years ago. This time it was on my own patch in Derbyshire, England! It was growing in isolation on a broken twig lying on the ground amongst leaf litter. The specimen in Scotland was as its maximum size which is 10 cm across. This tiny little one was about 2 cm across but perfectly formed. The black marking towards the base of the stem being a perfect example of why it gets its name.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Characteristics:</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cap 1-10 cm across, funnel-shaped with an irregular margin edge. Indented at the point where the stem attaches. Oche-brown becoming tan with age. Finely lined. Pores white later becoming brown. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stem approx up to 5 cm, narrow with blackening at the base.</span><br />
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<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-43228914713057190002019-08-12T05:41:00.000-07:002019-08-12T05:41:54.828-07:00Enteridium lycoperdon<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enteridium lycoperdon</span></u><br />
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Enteridium lycoperdon is a member of the Myxomycetes most usually referred to as Slime Moulds. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The majority of these are very tiny but a few can be seen with the naked eye. A very primative fungus and a subject in itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wandering around my allotment earlier this year I came across Enteridium lycoperdon. It was larger than previous ones I'd seen, and a week or so later it had burst releasing a mass of brown spores. Having never seen the spores burst out I thought I'd share the photographs in this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Characteristics: medium to large sized whitish cushion. Can feel rubbery and soft.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At maturity it breaks down to expose reddish brown spores. Usually to be found on dead trees but usually the tree is still in the ground. Can be seen throughout the year but mostly in the Spring.</span><br />
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<u><br /></u>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-36464108091653262262019-07-08T09:50:00.000-07:002019-07-08T09:50:25.393-07:00Peziza cerea - Cellar Cup<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Peziza cerea - Cellar Cup</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I received an email from a friend who notified me that he'd found a fungus growing in his garage. Off I went later that day to take a look. It's not every day that I go to investigate a fungus growing inside a building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cellar Cup is often to be found on rotting sandbags, sacking, damp mortar and soil between damp paving stones. Fundamentally this fungus likes damp and moist conditions. I came across Cellar Cup a long time ago - that example was growing on discarded sacking. The example included in this post was covered in cobwebs but in prime condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Characteristics: Cup 1-5 cm across, cup-shaped, yellowish - buff with a paler inner surface. The outer surface is similar but can be darker with a scurfy texture that darkens towards the base.</span><br />
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<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-14786305094166192852019-07-01T10:00:00.000-07:002019-07-01T10:01:38.507-07:00Psathyrella ammophila - Dune Brittlestem<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Psathyrella ammophila - Dune Brittlestem</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Within 24 hours of arriving at Arbroath on the East coast of Scotland my friend took me to Carnoustie beach. A small sand and rock beach with some sand dunes remaining. Some of the dunes have vanished over the years as sea defences have had to be built.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a real treat for me to visit the coastline and am always on the lookout for mushrooms that grow in such a habitat. On the walk back to the car park I stumbled across a handful of Dune Brittlestem. I find it amazing that fungus can survive in such a hostile environment surrounded by marram grass. Anyway it made my day as they were at their prime and the photographs are below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cap up to 3 cm across. Clay coloured, slowly turning darker brown with ultra fine hairs that are only visible with a magnifying glass. Gills initially pale then dark brown and finally black. Quite broad and close. Stem pallid brown, smooth, virtually equal, slender and slightly rooting. No ring. Can be hollow. To be found in local dunes between May and September.</span><br />
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Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-9558314911161455232019-06-11T07:51:00.003-07:002019-06-11T07:52:41.298-07:00Agrocybe rivulosa - Wrinkled Field Cap Mushroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Agrocybe rivulosa - Wrinkled Field Cap Mushroom</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I found this lovely specimen at University Park, Nottingham where over the years have found many interesting and unusual mushrooms. Behind the Boat House was a huge pile of bark chippings. I always tend to investigate such 'piles' whether it be dung or chippings and there found a mushroom with a wrinkled cap. I'd not seen one quite like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On returning home I spent several hours searching for it in my various books and it did not feature. After much searching on the internet I thought it might be Agrocybe rivulosa. I sent some of my photographs to my friend Howard retired Recorder for Nottinghamshire Fungi Group and he confirmed it to be the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks to M for driving me to the University Park in the rain so that I could get some more photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is some background to this mushroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first recorded sighting of this mushroom was in 2003 by a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dutch </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mycologist </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marijke M. Nauta (source Wikipedia). The first recording in the UK was in 2004. It has since become quite common in Southern England due to the process of mulching flowerbeds which has caused its spreading. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is common in Holland, and mainland Europe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also been recorded occasionally in Wales and Scotland. Rivulosa refers to the wrinkled grooves like rivulets in the cap. Source First Nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The cap can reach a diameter of up to 10 cm. The colour of the cap can vary from clay/yellow to pale orange-brown. The gills are cream initially then turning grey. The stem is fibrous and hollow, white turning pale ochre/grey with a large pendulous ring. Chemical smell. To been seen June - October on mulch and bark chippings.</span><br />
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Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-63966887609797760582019-05-13T09:09:00.001-07:002019-05-15T08:40:45.179-07:00Peziza badia - Bay Cup found in a skip<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peziza badia - Bay Cup</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It never ceases to amaze me where fungus can end up growing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who'd have thought in a skip! The story behind this is as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A lady was having her garden landscaped. Old wood and debris was placed in the skip along with clumps of soil removed for the creation of a new path. The lady concerned left a card through my letterbox telling me she'd seen a fungus in her hired skip. Intrigued I had to investigate so off I travelled to take a look. To my surprise the fungus in question turned out to be a Bay Cup. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perfect in every way - the colouring and the scurfy exterior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Below are photographs showing this excellent example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Characteristics: 3-8 cm across, cup-shaped firstly then developing a wavy margin edge that is irregular in shape. Inner surface shiny, brown with olive tinge with the outer edge being scurfy. To be found in soil, in clay soil on banks or path edges. Later Summer to Autumn. Frequent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I visited the lady who found this fungus and indeed the soil was removed from a clay path and then placed in the skip! Sometime after this soil removal the Peziza badia appeared.</span><br />
<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-9523803949061083212019-03-04T08:43:00.001-08:002019-03-04T08:43:12.079-08:00Panaeolus semiovatus - Egghead Mottlegill - revisited<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Panaeolus semiovatus - Egghead Mottlegill</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wrote a post about the Egghead Mottlegill in 2013. I was in Angus Scotland and it was my first sighting. I was struck by its simple beauty - clay coloured, the egg-shaped cap and the shiny, somewhat, creased texture. This mushroom is usually found in or near dung. This past weekend I was out walking and came across some superb examples of this mushroom and this time in England rather than Scotland! In this post I have included some photographs below of it growing in its various stages.</span><br />
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A fungus belonging to the family of Nidulariaceae. These usually grow on dung, wood or other plant material with a tendency to grow in large groups. Bowl-like structure usually less than 1 cm in diameter. The bowl has at maturity tiny hard seed like peridioles. About 5 in the genera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This fungus is difficult to find and is therefore easily overlooked. I found it by chance as I had paused during a conversation and just happened to be staring at the ground. It was growing on chip bark in a flower bed at the University Park Campus, Nottinghamshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fruit body is up to 12 mm across and 15 mm tall. Bowl shaped. The outer texture is felty and greyish/dull yellow. The inner bowl is silver/grey and smooth. At maturity it contains several minute 'eggs'. Firstly is it covered in a membrane which peels away to reveal the 'eggs'. Mealy sweet smell.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This example found on bark chippings in a group of 30 or so.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To me they looked like minute Yorkshire puddings though some books describe them as tiny souffles!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was thrilled to have come across it as it was my first sighting.</span><br />
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<br />Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-85866726005760702732018-12-29T04:50:00.001-08:002018-12-29T04:50:28.359-08:00Peziza vesiculosa - Blistered Cup<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Peziza vesiculosa - Blistered Cup</span></u><br />
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I wrote a post about this fungus previously but thought I would revisit the subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The last time I saw Blistered Cup was on a visit to Exmouth. I spotted a small group, mostly immature growing in a horse-manured rose bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More recently (November) I was out walking in my local area (Nottinghamshire) and spied a huge pile of steaming horse dung near to the hedgerow which meant I could easily take a look. Always on the look out for fungi which habitat dung, I had to investigate. Not the most pleasant of tasks, tramping around steaming dung, horse dung is preferable to cow!, but when something is found, of course it is well worth the effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This pile of dung held a nice surprise - it was full of Blistered Cup including some huge specimens at maturity. It was also nice to see this fungus growing in its natural habitat, rather than having been moved to a rose-bed as mentioned above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although this fungus is common this is only my second sighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Characteristics: Bowl-shaped up to 8 cm across. Light tan to buff. On close inspection creased grooves can be seen on the exterior cap. Minute granules can also be seen. The margin is in-rolled when immature. When dry it can become brittle. This fungus can withstand frosts. In large groups in horse dung and well-manured soil. All year but more so in Spring and Autumn. Common.</span><br />
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Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-18659787698605987482018-10-26T02:57:00.001-07:002018-10-26T08:09:58.993-07:00Coprinus picaceus - Magpie Inkcap<u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Coprinus picaceus - Magpie Inkcap</span></u><br />
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I found Magpie Inkcap last week. Bunny Wood, Nottinghamshire. This Inkcap is uncommon and mostly to be found in Southern Britain. There have been a few recordings in the county of Nottinghamshire (4), so was thrilled to have come across this - especially as I have been on the look out for it for over a decade. It was solitary and growing next to a Hawthorn tree. Unusually, it was growing on its side and was still attached to the ground as seen in photographs below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Characteristics: Cap up to 8 cm high, firstly conical then bell-shaped in maturity. Initially white and then turning hues of grey, finally black and covered in patches of remnants of veil which can vary between pink to clay. The gills are crowded, pinkish and with maturity black. The stem can reach heights of 30 cm and has a white woolly base which is bulbous. Deliquescing with age. Late Summer to Autumn in mixed woods but mainly beech.</span><br />
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Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-21038664951024142102018-10-01T04:04:00.001-07:002018-10-01T04:04:23.606-07:00Leucocoprinus birnbaumii - Plantpot Dapperling<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Leucocoprinus birnbaumii - Plantpot Dapperling</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I recently received an email from a volunteer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh who required some help with fungi identifications. He also sent me a photograph of a fungus found in a Research Glasshouse that was growing in a plant pot next to an </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Amorphophallus paeoniifolius. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plantpot Dapperling or Flowerpot Parasol is a tropical fungus that can be found in heated glasshouses or greenhouses all year round. It is uncommon and its characteristics are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cap up to 5 cm across, firstly ovate then bell-shaped and at maturity flat with an umbo. Its colour can vary from bright yellow to greenish yellow/pale yellow and when dry more brown. The texture is dry/mealy/minutely scaly. In some mature examples the margin edge can be striate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The gills are free, yellow and crowded. The stem is slender but can have a slightly bulbous base. A small ring may be seen high up on the stem and also there may be remnants of veil. Although the ring can disappear. It should not be eaten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With kind regards and thanks to Robert Jones and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for allowing me to use this photograph.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span>Alison Lintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00810126399294613384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460453897155467946.post-55443901483255022522018-09-14T08:46:00.000-07:002018-09-14T08:46:01.655-07:00Coprinus niveus - Snowy Inkcap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This fungus grows specifically in dung - usually horse or cow. The example I found was solitary in horse dung in a grass verge. As the name suggests this fungus is white, and the cap is covered in chalk-white meal. In fact, it looks as though it has been coated in fine, dry, white snow. A rather captivating mushroom actually. Very visible when appearing out of dark coloured dung. I was fortunate to capture this one in its prime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cap up to 3 cm high. Egg-shaped to conical firstly and then bell-shaped at maturity. White and covered with chalky white meal. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also with maturity the margin edge splits and can roll back. The gills are firstly white, quickly turning grey, then black and deliquescing. The stem is rather tall up to 9 cm with a cottony base and scurfy texture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It tapers slightly from bottom to top. It has no strong odour. Usually in small groups on horse or cow dung. Summer to Autumn. Quite frequent. Not edible.</span><br />
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