Pluteus aurantiorugosus

This is a fairly rare little mushroom - it isn't in most of the field guides and doesn't even seem to be talked about much on the internet. 

Pluteus aurantiorugosus

The cap is both eye-catching and distinctive in terms of colour and texture.

Pluteus aurantiorugosus

Back-lit, Spidery Post

Fencepost of the Week #89

This post is falling apart and the spiders have claimed most of its peaks and valleys as their own.

Greasy Bracket

An irregular, soft, rounded bracket that smells mushroomy.

Aurantiporus fissilis - Greasy Bracket

It's pores are large enough to be easily visible with the naked eye and the upper surface has a distinctive, rough texture.

Aurantiporus fissilis - Greasy Bracket

It starts off white, but yellows with age. It grows on dead wood, but often (as here) emerges from the dead wood of a wound on a living tree.

Silk Canopy

This elegant stucture was on the underside of an oak leaf in Sussex in early October, and seems to be a woven out of silk, but I've not been able to find anything similar on the net or in my books.  

Looking closely at the photo, there is a small insect visible inside one of the arches - looks like a springtail. Did it build this?

Rotten Log Cornucopia

Just a neat little clustering of sulphur tuft and stump puffball fruiting bodies adorning a rotting log.

Hypholoma fasculare - Sulphur Tuft and Lycoperdon pyriforme - Stump Puffball. Both are common on well rotted timber.

Rooting Poisonpie

Monday Mushroom #86

 Hebeloma is a genus of fungi often called poisonpies - their caps have a texture remeniscent of pie crust, and they are mostly poisonous enough to cause unpleasant gastric upsets.

Rooting Poisonpie - Hebeloma radicosum

This one is the rooting poisonpie - it has a  long root attached to the base of the stem and smells of bitter almonds. It mostly grows up from subterranean patches of soil with very high ammonia content - middens of mammals, or sometimes corpses.

Rooting Poisonpie - Hebeloma radicosum

Hedgehog

Hydnum repandum - Hedgehog Mushroom