Dillington





Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Elf Cup Sp
Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)


Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)
A Hawthorn (Craetagus monogyna) growing through a SIlver Birch (Betulus Sp)


Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphea heteromalla)
A moss with shoot dimorphism.
The primary stem laying adpressed to the bark of a tree but the fruiting shoots projecting stiffly away from the bark.


Minute pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)

Enchnanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) broad basal leaves.


A splendid happy patterned partnership of Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) {brown} and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
This time fading into a Lichen Sp as well

The unmistakeable lime green of Bird's-claw beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata)
Dry, tightly rolled Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium horschuchianum)


Probably Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) rather than a Lichen.
Troll's butter, spit of moon, fallen star, witch's jelly being among the panoply of names from Wikipedia.
The name going all the way back to Paracelsus 1493-1541
A combination of of the English 'nostril' and German "Nasenloch"
In other words
Snot Like 



Mature sporophytes
Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)
Monoicious - Male & female organs on the same thallus.

Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with gemmae on the leaf margins.

Forked Scalewort (Metzgeria furcata)
A dioecious species 




A well colonised & spectacular rootplate
A stump engulfed.

Wet woodland
Willow Moss (Fontanalis antipyretica)
Large mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)
Strumpshaw Fen

Clarke's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella }


Ash Buds (Fraxinus excelsior)
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Polypore Sp

Elf Cup Sp (Sarcoscypha Sp)
Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera adusta)
