Slime Mould Eats Fungus

This is Physarum polycephalum - a slime mould that has become somewhat of a celebrity due to its performance in laboratories and mazes. 

Here it is in its natural habitat moving over and cleaning out a  small bracket fungus Stereum subtomentosum. Fungi are among its favourite foods.

After the Storm

There was a big storm here 28 years ago. All the old oak and ash trees are still alive, but leaning or growing up from a recumbent trunk. And they are interspersed with many tall, straight 28 year olds.

Dusky Post

Fencepost of the Week #87

In the woods at dusk.

Felt Saddle

Here's some Helvella macropus fruiting bodies slumming it with Tricholoma ustale in a beech wood, somewhere in Sussex.

Helvella macropus - Felt Saddle, with Tricholoma ustale - Burnt Knight.

Helvella macropus - Felt Saddle

Freckled Dapperling

Lepiota aspera - Freckled Dapperling

This was my first time finding one of the pointy-warted Lepiotas - From above it looked like Agaricus augustus, but it has a very fleecy, unevenly detatching ring - almost like Cortinarius.  I think this is Lepiota aspera although I couldn't really tell the difference between L. aspera and the closely related L. echinacea.

Comma

Polygonia c-album - Comma

Polygonia c-album - Comma

Thelephora penicillata

Monday Mushroom #84

 An unusual, tassely fungus found fighting for space with the moss on soggy forest floors.

Thelephora penicillata

Thelephora penicillata