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Sweet Briar Marsh
Oaks (Quercus robur) in the autumn sunshine
One or two of the old Sallows had good collections pf epiphytes.
Including
Wood Bristle-moss, Lateral Cryphaea, Dilated Scalewort, Minute Pouncewort & Syntrichia papillosa
Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affine) growing around the Hawthorn ( Crataegus monogyna) branches
Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphaea heteromalla)
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)
Lesser Pond Sedge (Carex acutiformis)
British White Cows working to create a more diverse environment. 
Cowpat Gem (Chelymenia granulata)
Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)
Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus)
&
dried
Fungus Sp?
Perforate St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Common Knapweed ( Centaurea nigra)
White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
The white tips at the end of the leaves give this one away. Grows on tress and stone
A small moss with a big name.
Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum)
Named after a German bryologist Christian Friedrich Hornschuch 1793- 1850
Lots of this moss in the wet grassland.
Heart-leaved Spear-moss (Calliergon cordifolium)
The small red fungus sp?
X100
MarshThyme-moss (Plagiomnium ellipticum)?
Cells in diagonal rows and the leaf base does not run down the stem.
Large Willow Bark Aphid (Tuberolachnus salignus)
Padley Gorge - Derbyshire
White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans)
Broom Fork-moss (Dicranum scoparium)
Hairy Beech Gall (Hartigiola annulipes ) on a Beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf
From
Dorset Nature
?
Holly Flower (Ilex aquifolium)
Lichen Sp
Tumid Notchwort (Lophozia ventricosa)
Mixed Tumid Notchwort & Grove Earwort
Largely White Earwort but also stands of Tumid Notchwort and Grove Earwort
Common Haircap (Polytrichum commune)
Waved Silk-moss (Plagiothecium undulatum)
Yellow-fringe-moss (Racomitrum aciculare)
Grove Earwort (Scapania nemorea)
Earlham Cemetery
Apricot Spindle (Clavulinopsis luteoalba)
Aromatic Pinkgill (Entoloma pleopodium)
from
Jeremy Bartlett
Ascot Hat (Hortiboletus bubalinus)
Five fungi from the streets of Norwich
by
Jeremy Bartlett
Blackening Waxcap (Hygrocybe conica)
Cucumber Cup (Macrocystidia cucumis)
Calocybe obscurissima
Fool's Funnel (Clitocybe dealbata)
Tan Pinkgill (Rhodoctye gemina)
Meadow Coral (Clavulinopsis corniculata)
Parrot Waxcap (Hygrocybe psittacinus)
Spores
Pinkgill Sp
Cheilocystidia
Shield Sp
Pluteus podospileus
Poison Pie Sp
Red-legged Roundhead (Leratiomyces ceres)
Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera adusta)
Freckled Dapperling ( Ehinoderma asperum)
Spotted Blewit (Lepista panaeolus)
Milkcap Sp
Candlesnuff (Xylaria hypoxylon)
Cromer Cliffs
Sycamores (Acer pseudoplatanus) on the cliff providing a good epiphyte habitat
Yoke-moss Sp (Zygodon Sp), Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dllatata), some nice patches of Yoke-moss Sp, which gave pause for thought as they were so tightly twisted.
Gemma of Yoke-moss Sp (Zygadon Sp)
Hart's Tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)
Wet flush area at the base of the cliffs
The capsule of a possible Seligera Sp (green and globose) accompanied by the capsule of a Dicrenella Sp
x200
x400
Dicranella Sp
The recurved margins are visible along the whole length of the leaf.
The costa is well defined, narrow and bears A relationship of 1:6 to the width of leaf towards its base in this case.
Suggesting Variable Forklet-moss (Dicronella varia)
A nice colony of Fern-leaved Hook-moss (Cratoneuron filicinum)
Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata) on the path coming down the cliff
Fly Sp
Jelly Lichen sp
Endive Pellia (Pellia endivifolia) growing on the cliff side.
Slime Mold Sp in amongst the Endive Pellia
Sporle Wood
Yellow Stainer (Agaricus xanthodernmus)
Yellow Fieldcap ( Bolbitius titubans)
White Knight (Tricholoma album)
From Anne
The white blobs on the Bjerkandera seemed to be a mass of hyphae - did anyone else look at these - Stewart?
From Stewart
I had to do some extra research on Tremellas, of which there are far more than I realised. I must come back to this soon,
as I feel that there are several species that we are missing. However, I have come to the conclusion that the blobs on the smoky bracket were Tremella polyporina.
The best reference that I have been able to find is 'The genus Tremella in Russia', but having been through all of the species on the British list there doesn't seen to
be any additional species growing on ploypores in the UK. Postia spp. are the most frequent host, but it is found occasionally on various other polypores.
From James
The crumbly branched things I found early on turned out to be Cordyceps farinosa (there is a very similar picture
on the website here: https://www.123pilzsuche.de/daten/details/GestielterInsektenschimmelpilz.htm).
This ID was first suggested by Antony Burnham on the BMS Facebook group.
From Stewart
Hysterothecia Sp (Coffee beans
Hysterium angustatum
Bleeding Conifer Crust (Stereum sanguinolentum)
Bleeding Oak Crust (Stereum gausapatum)
Bowl Hoody (Calyptella capula)
Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea)
Brown Cup (Peziza phyllogena)
California Fungi (Mycoacia uda)
from Anne
Mycoaciia uda - Spores correct and FB stained purple in KOH (B&K 2)
Charcoal Burner (Russula cyanoxantha)
Webcap Sp (Cortinarius Sp)
from Anne
I had trouble with the other toothed resupinate. It wasn’t what I thought it was on site and I struggled to find anything
that matched the spore shape and size and the toothed form. My only thought is that it was a pale
Steccherinum ochraceum as most of the spores were within range….
From Anne
Chestnut Dapperling (Lepiota castanea)
from Stewart
Tubeufia cerea on Diatrype disciformis
Dewdrop Bonnet (Hemimycena tortuosa)
Earpick Fungus (Auriscalpium vulgare)
Ectodemia quiquella on Oak (Quercus robur)
Green Elf Cup (Chlorociboria aeruginascens)
Eyelash Fungus Sp (Scutellinia Sp)
Fiery Milkcap (Lactarius pyrogalus)
From Tony
The bell found by Ian S. turned out to be Galerina cephalotricha with very distinctively shaped cheilocystidia
(flask shaped with capitate apices; some misleadingly with an incrusted collar = G. lacustris) and slightly
ornamented spores with a weak plage measuring 8.6x5.2. NB the measured spore length (n-15)
was slightly smaller than Kibby's stated range but just within FN1. Ref: FN1 and Kibby Vol 3.
Gall Sp?
Crust Fungus Sp?
Extraordinary amount of frass for such a small area of browsing.
Gypsonoma dealbana
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x100
x200
Blunt feather-moss (Homalia trichomanoides) fruiting
From Tony
The scaly-topped, small brown fibrecap found near our lunch spot (found by ?) turned out to be Inocybe cincinnata
(however hard I tried I couldn't string it to I. obscuroides!) Ref: Kibby Vol 4 and Outen/Cullington Key 2015. 
Knight Sp?
From Jeremy
The large "Knight" found was actually a Shield - Pluteus pouzarianus (Conifer Shield).
I checked the spores, pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia and found clamp connections in the cap tissue.
Used Kibby vol 2 and online pictures of tissue with clamps. Grows on coniferous wood. 
Lemon Disco (Bisporella citrina)
Variable-leaved Crestwort (Lophocolea heterophylla)
Magpie Inkcap (Copronopsis picacea)
Milkcap Sp?
Frass from Black-barred Fungus Moth ( Nemapogon clematella)
Scarlet Bonnet (Mycena adonis)
Initialy found near King Alfred's Cakes (Daldinia concetrica)
But also later in the day.
from James
I'm still not 100% about the small white oysters that were growing on and near Daldinia, so hopefully
Steve has come up with something! The spores I measured were roughly 9 x 5um. Combined with the mealy
smell and fluffiness of the small ones the closest I can get is Clitopilus hobsonii, which grows on a range of
woody substrates but is typically only up to 20mm (these were mostly within that but some were c35mm).
From Steve
On to the cause of the delay, the white oysters. For those that didn't see these they were pleurotoid 20-30 mm white caps with wavy edges and moderately spaced white gills, insignificant stem and a strong farinaceous smell, growing on a fallen Fraxinus trunk in very close association to Daldinia concentrica.
Doing a spore print didn't provide enough material to be truly confident of the colour but the impression was of a pale off white with a pink/cream tinge. Looking at the spores under oil they were ellipsoid and noticeably longitudinally ridged with 6-9 ridges, measuring (8) 9-10 (11) x 5-5.5 µm. Looking through Kibby volume 4 initially I was drawn to Clitopilus hobsonii except for the cap size which Kibby gives as 2-8 mm and the caps on our specimens were much larger than this, also our spores which were very slightly larger than those given for Clitopilus hobsonii which was 7-9 x 5-6.5 µm. Kibby also mentions Clitopilus daamsii which is " often confused with Clitopilus hobsonii and can be distinguished by the larger spore size" of 8-11 x 5-6.5 µm.
Moving to Fungi of temperate Europe was no help on the exact cap dimensions front as it doesn't mention cap size apart from saying small.
Working through the key in Funga Nordica this describes a much larger cap size range for Clitopilus hobsonii of 2-15 which gives more credibility to the possibility of Clitopilus hobsonii. Funga Nordica also mentions Clitopilus rhodophyllus which I would rule out based on gill colour although the cap size (15-45 mm) better matches our specimens. FN also mentions Clitopilus daamsii which less well matches our fruiting bodies as cap size for this is given as 2-8 mm but the spore sizes for this being 8-11.5 x 5-7 µm fits much better with what I was seeing down the microscope. Interestingly FN also states that C. daamsii also "frequently grows on other fungi such as polypores" and our specimens were very clearly growing in very close association with Daldinia concentrica although admittedly this is not a polypore.
The spore size along with association with other fungi for me points very much towards the possibility of Clitopilus daamsii, but a cautionary note comes from Fungi of Temperate Europe which states that this is perhaps a somewhat dubious species.
Searching Genbank there are a number of sequences of Clitopilus hobsonii including one from type specimen but there are no sequences for Clitopilus daamsii so whilst DNA could prove that it is or isn't Clitopilus hobsonii we would not currently be able to prove that it is Clitopilus daamsii.
Pygmy Brittlestem (Psathyrella pymaea)
Hypoxylon rubiginosum
Rusty Crust (On pine) (Skeletocutis amorpha)
Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgineum)
Split Gill (Schizophyllum commune)
The Blusher (Amanita rubescens)
Sp?
Largely the distinctive brown Teliospores
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x400
x 1000
Mint Rust (Puccinia menthae)
Found on Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
Spilopodia nervisequa
A small fungus growing on the petiole of a Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) leaf
From Stewart
Plagiostoma inclinatum
A sooty mold on Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)
Capnodium footii
Capnodium Sp grow on Honeydew, which is secreted by aphids,whiteflies, soft scale, mealy bugs, leafhoppers and psyllids.
This particular Capnodiium sp was once thought to be a distinct species (1859) but is now considered to be one part of the fungus Denisiella babingtonii although I haven't as yet found anyhting
that fully explains that connection.
The green window on a fallen Aspen (Populus tremula) leaf caused by Ectodeamia argyropeza
Cley
A Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus) surrounded by Black-headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and a Common Gull (Larus canus) spooked by a Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Pinkfeet (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Deer's Glade - Hanworth
Darkling Beetle Sp?
Canonball Fungus (Sphaerobolus stellatus)
Many thanks to Deer's Glade, Hanworth for allowing me to photograph these.
Canonball Fungus
From
Real Monstrosities
Rollesby & Lilly Broad
Rollesby Broad
Great White Egret (Ardea alba)
Rust on the underside of an Alder Leaf (Alnus glutinosa)
Melampsoridium betulinum
Lilly Broad
Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brahcythecium rutabulum)
Cowpat gem (Cheilymenia granulata)
Young Fern
Mycena Sp?
Nestled in amongst Swan's Neckeck Thyme Moss (Mnium hornum)
Blunt-leaved Bog-Moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Wolf's Milk (Lycogala epidendrum)
Fungus Sp on Sallow
Alder Bracket (Mensularia radiata)
Silky Forklet-moss (Dicronella heteromalla)
Gressenhall
?
Candlesnuff (Xylaria hypoxylon)
Candlesnuff Fungus
from
Botany in Scotland
Cherry Gall of the wasp Cynips quercusfolii
Common Rustgill (Gymnopilus penetrans)
Variable Webcap (Cortanarius anomalus)
Fairy Inkcap (Coprinellus disseminatus)
Frosty Bonnet (Mycena tenerrima)
Hare's Ear Fungus (Otidea onotica)
With extra mould?
Lilac Fibre Cap (Inocybe lilacina)
Mollisia Sp?
Mycena Sp?
Scarlet Bonnet perhaps?
Possibly Bitter Oysterling (Panellus stipticus)?
Confirmed By TL
One to taste next time.
Sulphur Tuft (Hyphaloma fasciculare)
White Melilot (Melilotus albus)
White Saddle (Helvella crispa)
Pink Spores x1000 Sub globose, angular
Wood Pinkgill (Entoloma rhodopolium)
Yellowing Knight Mushroom (Tricholo,a sculpturatum)
Cley
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
A party of 13
Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus) amongst Black-headed Gull (Choicocephalus ridibundus) & a Common Gull (Larus cannus)
Felbrigg
Burgundy Drop Bonnet (Mycena haematopus)?
Blushing Bracket (Daedalopsis contragosa)
Golden Waxcap (Hydrocybe chlorophana)
Common Bonnet (Mycena galericulata)
Mycena Sp
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus)
Lichen Sp
?
Meadow Waxcap (Cupophyllus pratensis)?
Sp?
Probably Upright Coral (Ramaria stricta) (Under Beech)
Mycena Sp?
Parrot Waxcap (Gliophurus psittacinus)
Crimp Gill (Plicatura crispa)
Peniophora Sp?
Powderpuff Bracket (Postia ptychogaster)
Shaggy Parasol Chlorophyllum rhacodes)
Slime Mold Sp
Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella mucida)
Snowy Waxcap (Cupophyllus virgineus)
Spindle berry (Euonymus europaeus)
?
Toughshank Sp?
Honey Fungus (Armillaria mellea)
White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans)
Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)
Creeping Fingerwort (Lepidozia reptans)
Cley
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Cley
Sea Aster (Aster tripolium)
Cley Windmill
Cley Church
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus Ibis)
Aldborough
Amber Snail (Succinea putris)
Silk Button Gall (Neuroterus numismalis) & Common Spangle Gall Neuroterus quercusbaccarum)
Rust on ?
Mildew - Sawadaea bicornis growing on the Sycamore leaf
Sycamore Tar Spot (Rhytisma acerinum)
Sori on leaves and stems.
Burst sori revealing a black spore mass on Creeping Buttercup. (Ranunculus repens)
Smut - Urocystis ranunculi
X400
x 1000
Spore balls - Brown fertile cells surrounded by clear sterile cells.
Phyllachora graminis
on
False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum)
Uridia (Spore producing bodies)
Urediospores
Rust on an Alder Leaf (Alnus glutinosus)
Alder Rust (Melampsoridium hiratsukanum)
This leaf is also covered in the erineum (felty growth of hairs from the leaf epidermis of plants) caused in this case by the mite Acalitus brevitarsus
Many Thanks to SW for help with ids and confirmations.
