Dragonfly Needs Sunshine Badly

Sympetrum striolatum

This fellow was basking on a fencepost in the weak, morning sunshine yesterday - didn't even have enough energy to fly off when I stuck a close-up lens in its face. I think it is Sympetrum striolatum.

Sympetrum striolatum

Sympetrum striolatum

Clustered Bonnet Cap

Common on dead oak wood, in tightly crowded tufts.

Mycena inclinata - Clustered Bonnet Cap

Mycena inclinata - Clustered Bonnet Cap

Beardy Post

Fencepost of the Week #86

There IS a fencepost somewhere under all that old man's beard lichen...

Crested Coral Fungus

Here's some photos of The Crested Coral Fungus - Clavulina coralloides. They are usually white, but discolour with age - also these pictures were taken at sunset and are making the subjects appear less white than they actually were - sorry!

Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral Fungus

Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral Fungus

Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral Fungus

Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral Fungus

Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral Fungus

 Every Clavulina fruiting body I've seen in Sussex this year has had these black tips. Google image search and my photos from other places suggest that they are not usually present, and I've not yet found any reference to them in online descriptions... another little mystery.

Parasitic Bolette

Pseudoboletus parasiticus - Parasitic Bolette

This is an easily identified bolette as it exclusively grows on common earthball - Scleroderma citrinum - fruiting bodies. Its stem erupts from the underside of the earth ball, which often deflates as the bolette mushrooms outwards  and upwards.

Fibrecaps

Monday Mushroom #83

Inocybe Spp. - Fibrecap

The genus Inocybe is a family of fungi most of which have this very distinctive cap texture: coarse, radial fibres, giving the cap a silky, shiny appearance. Mostly brownish and small to medium sized, telling them apart can be tricky, though several of them have distincitve scents. I think this one is Inocybe rimosa, but I'm not sure.

Inocybe Spp. - Fibrecap - close up of the typical fibrecap cap texture.

Yellow Concrete Crust

Fencepost of the Week #85

Another in Sussex's great line of concrete fenceposts.