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Misidentifying Fungi: Horton Wood on a dry December day
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Saturday, 3 December 2016. Horton Wood on a dry December day. Quick stroll to Horton Wood this morning. Wasn't expecting much in the way of fungi, as I gather the season starts winding down at this time of year. But there were a few things about. I took a specimen of the mushroom in the foreground of the second picture. Here's the cap up close:. Cap dry and mousy brown. Yellow-brown...
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Misidentifying Fungi: April 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Monday, 4 April 2016. Something in the flowerbed. Something caught my eye as I walked up the garden path this evening. Something in this flowerbed:. This cup fungus has sprung up all along the length of the bed:. Outer surface, but forms a separate layer with a slightly smoother texture. It doesn't have much of a stem to speak of. To 8cm across; initially deep cup- or goldfish bowl-...
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Misidentifying Fungi: June 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Wednesday, 22 June 2016. Now here's some mould I WANT to see on my lunch break: Slime mould! With all this warm, damp weather we're having, I couldn't resist popping over to Hoe Wood at lunchtime for a quick poke around. First up, a nice lunchtime treat: Dog's Vomit. Close by, a lone drop of Wolf's Milk. This next one's a new one for me: Mustard-yellow sporangia on a darker stalk.
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Misidentifying Fungi: March 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Sunday, 20 March 2016. Small stream that runs along the southern edge of the plateau at Park Corner Heath, looking east towards the pond. It's fairly common knowledge among the volunteers involved in managing Butterfly Conservation's Park Corner Heath. As the Brimstone butterfly emerges from hibernation to patrol the woodland rides, looking for a mate, the Bog Beacon. Well, this loo...
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Misidentifying Fungi: October 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Sunday, 30 October 2016. Now That's What I Call A Fungus Foray. Back out with the Sussex Fungus Group. Today, this time for a public fungus foray around Tilgate Park. In Crawley with Kevin Lerwill from the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership. Was there to introduce us to the fungi of these different habitats. We saw many different species, including quite a few not-very-photogenic Mycena.
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Misidentifying Fungi: Rowland Wood in December: Mince pies and Oysters
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Sunday, 11 December 2016. Rowland Wood in December: Mince pies and Oysters. It was the last conservation work party of the year today at Butterfly Conservation's Rowland Wood reserve in Sussex. A perfect opportunity for some fungus-surveying, while Michael was busy doing some real work: chopping down Birch trees. I soon started racking-up the species: Small Stagshorn. In Sussex....
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Misidentifying Fungi: July 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Tuesday, 26 July 2016. The Amanita from Iping. Iping Common was looking glorious one Friday evening, a couple of weeks ago, when I joined the Sussex Wildlife Trust's wildlife guardians on a walk around the reserve. Passing this expanse of heather on the right hand side, on the path which runs south west from the car park, we headed into a little patch of mixed birch woodland. But as...
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Misidentifying Fungi: Elastic Oysterling?
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Monday, 9 January 2017. Was back in Rowland Wood yesterday so thought I'd grab a specimen of that Oysterling I found growing on pine brash last month. Here's where it was growing. Here's what it looks like. And here's my specimen. The key to the Panellus. Species in Funga Nordica. Takes you to two species with whitish or buff fruit bodies: P. stipticus. I've seen P. stipticus. I was...
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Misidentifying Fungi: December 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Sunday, 11 December 2016. Rowland Wood in December: Mince pies and Oysters. It was the last conservation work party of the year today at Butterfly Conservation's Rowland Wood reserve in Sussex. A perfect opportunity for some fungus-surveying, while Michael was busy doing some real work: chopping down Birch trees. I soon started racking-up the species: Small Stagshorn. In Sussex....
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Misidentifying Fungi: August 2016
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I don't know much about Fungi. What I do know is, they're mostly pretty hard to identify to species. So this is me, trying. Thursday, 18 August 2016. Mushrooms, thousands of 'em. Entering Hoe Wood, I noticed a small cluster of mushrooms nestled between the roots of an oak tree up ahead. As I walked further on I realised, these same mushrooms were. everywhere. Tight clusters of them pressed up against the oak trees. In fact most of the oak trees in the wood had mushrooms for company. Some like it hot.
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