Didymium

 I've seen quite a few slime moulds about recently. I think this one is Didymium melanospermum which likes growing on mosses.

Aniseed Cockleshell Fungus

 

Aniseed cockleshell fungus - Lentinellus cochleatus. Lentinellus species sport an unusual, jagged gill profile. This one grows a bit like a small oyster mushroom and smells of aniseed. Too bitter to be considered a good edible, though.

False Truffle Earthtongue

Tolypocladium capitatum - sprouting from a subterranean false truffle.

 
Elaphomyces granulatus is a truffle-like fungus that inhabits conifer plantations. It is rarely seen as it grows a few centimeters beneath the surface. It is parasitised by an earth tongue Tolypocladium capitatum that sprouts from the truffle and heads upwards, breaching the surface so it can deposit its spores on the wind.

 

 

A false truffle Elaphomyces granulatus revealed by digging down the stalks of the parasites.

Dusk on the Moss Mounds

 Fencepost of the Week #198

 

Grizzled Peak

 Fencepost of the Week #197

Lovely Lichen Ensemble

 Fencepost of the Week #196

Bathing Queue

 Fencepost of the Week #195

A bird (linnet maybe?) enjoyng my #FencepostOfTheWeek while awaiting its turn in the bathing pool.