Grey Fuzzies at Dawn

Fencepost of the Week #128

Cortinarius bolaris

Cortinarius bolaris

Cortinarius bolaris

Cortinarius bolaris

Tremella foliacea

Tremella foliacea

Tremella foliacea

Tremella foliacea

The Sickener

The sickener - Russula emetica

The sickener - Russula emetica

Porcelain Fungus

Porcelain fungus - Oudemansiella mucida

Mouldy Old Boletus

Monday Mushroom #111

This sweaty, mould covered boletus is well past its sell-by date.

The Pointiest

Cortinarius acutus - an exceptionally pointy mushroom!

Cortinarius acutus

Cortinarius acutus

They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To

Fencepost of the Week #127

Polypoerus tuberaster Poses

Polyporus tuberaster - growing out of the top of a gorse branch.

Polyporus tuberaster - growing out of the side of a gorse branch.

Cortinarius evernius

Cortinarius evernius coming up in sizeable clumps all over the Cowal's soggier forest plantations.

Cortinarius evernius

Cortinarius evernius

Cortinarius evernius

Silky Piggyback Mushroom

I blogged about the powdery piggyback mushroom here. These photos are of the silky piggyback mushroom - it is similarly parasitic on russules, but doesn't have the strange spore generating tissue of its powdery brethren.

Asterophora parasitica - silky piggyback mushroom

Asterophora parasitica - silky piggyback mushroom

Candelabra Coral Fungus

Artomyces pyxidatus - candelabra coral fungus

Artomyces pyxidatus - candelabra coral fungus

Beech Jellydisc

Monday Mushroom #110

Beech jellydisc - Neobulgaria pura

Brown Rollrim

Brown  rollrim - Paxillus involutus

Cups All Over

Fencepost of the Week #126

Angel Wings Unfurling

Here are some newly emerged angel wings fruiting bodies - they're still sorting out which way is up.

Pleurocybella porrigens - angel wings

See this post for a note on the tricky situation regarding their edibility!

Sulphur Tufts

Hypholoma fasculare - sulphur tufts

Scrambled Egg Slime Mould

Fuligo septica - scrambled egg slime mould

Fuligo septica - scrambled egg slime mould

Bleachy Bonnetcap

Mycena alcalina

A small, dark bonnetcap that grows on rotting wood and smells strongly of bleach.

Cortinarius alboviolaceus

Monday Mushroom #109

Cortinarius alboviolaceus

Cortinarius alboviolaceus - with some Cantharellus tubaeformis on the side.

Shaggy Green Post

Fencepost of the Week #125

Marasmius rotula

Marasmius rotula

Marasmius rotula

Marasmius rotula

More Frosty Slime Mould

More Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa macro photos.

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa - frosty slime mould

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa - frosty slime mould

Plums and custard

Tricholomopsis rutilans - plums and custard

Bleeding Bonnet

This is Mycena haematopus, one of the bleeding bonnetcaps - snap the stem and they exude a dark red liquid. I recently saw them in a list of bioluminescent fungi - but I have yet to go out at night and see.

Mycena haematopus - bleeding bonnetcap

Mycena haematopus - bleeding bonnetcap

Curly Feelers

Dismantling a spider all the while twirling its mustachios.