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Sunday, 30 October 2022
Didymium
I've seen quite a few slime moulds about recently. I think this one is Didymium melanospermum which likes growing on mosses.
Labels:
argyll,
cowal,
moss,
myxomycete,
photography,
slime mold,
slime mould,
UK
Saturday, 22 October 2022
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.
Labels:
aniseed,
argyll,
cowal,
fungi,
Lentinellus,
mushrooms,
photography,
sawgill,
UK
Monday, 3 October 2022
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. |
Labels:
argyll,
cowal,
earth tongue,
Elaphomyces,
fungi,
mushrooms,
parasite,
photography,
Tolypocladium,
UK
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