Postwick
Arrhenia Sp
TM - Arrhenia retiruga
Black fuzzy furry on Holly
SW - Corynespora smithii
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Fungi of Great Britain & Ireland
Roundhead Sp (Stropharia Sp)
SJ - Blue Roundhead (Stropharia aeruginosa)
Botrytis cinerea on Bramble (Rubus fructicosa agg)
Calyptella Sp
Common Stump Brittlestem (Psathyrella piluliformis)
Inkcap Sp
Some warm brick red colours from the The Deceiver (Laccaria lacata)
Veined Bonnet (Delicutula integrella)
Dialonectria magnusiana on Birch Blackhead (Diatrype favacea)
Pine Jelly (Exidia saccharina)
AC - Simocybe centunculus
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
?
Some rather spectacular examples of Wood Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae)
Milking Bonnet (Mycena galopus)
Mollisia Sp
The spores matched the pictures in Peter Thompson with two oil bodes at either end.
So Probably M cinerea
Lots of tiny white stick fungi in amongst the Mollisia something for another time.
But another Mollisia seemed to suggest a different species.
From the pictures in Peter Thompson they seemed to have small polar drops rather than obvious oil bodies..
Suggesting Mollisia cf cinerella?
Then a further Pale Yellow Sp
Hairy round the rim of the apothecia
Hairy underside
Short stalk
?
Frosty Bonnet (Mycena tenerrima) with it's sugar coating dusting
Common Bonnet (Mycena galericulata)
Mycena Sp
A very young 'Pale Yellow Splash Tooth' (Mycoacia uda)
Something to see as a grown up
Mycoacia uda at Crust Fungi.com
Netted Crust (Byssomerulius corium)
Unknown at the moment on Netted Crust (Byssomerulius corium)
Sadly - TM - The orange/pink staining appears to be just that. The 'Candy floss' type hairs growing over the area appear to have no connection to the staining.
You can clearly see the brown edge to the gills in the image above
Brownedge Bonnet (Mycena olivaceomarginata)
Crimped Gill (Plicatura crispa)
Powderpuff Bracket (Postia ptychogaster)
Purple Pore Bracket (Trichaptum abietinum)
With clinginghairrs - inhabiting fir trees
In this case on a Pine log.
A stunning Redspored Dapperling with an equally stunning name
(Melanophyllum haematospermum)
Rosellinia mamiformis
and
growing on it
SW - Calcarisporium arbuscula
Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfacea)
Slime Mold Sp
Comatriche nigra
Small Stagshorn (Calocera cornea)
Ochre Spreading Tooth (Steccerhinum ochraceum)
Velvetshank (Flammilina velutipes)
TM - Spores were measured to eliminate F elastica
Wood Blewit (Collybia nuda)
Wood Woollyfoot (Gymnopus peronatus)
Felbrigg
This had an orange reaction to UV so points to a few species.
eg Pyrrhospora quernea & Lecanora expallens
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)
Likely to be Buellia grisevirens, with possibly Ochrolechia arborea below.
Ochrolechia subviridis on the base of a very old Oak (Quercus robur)
Crustose Lichen
Fuscidea lightfootii
Crustose Lichen on rocks & trees
Blue reaction to UV
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Found by VB
On investigation and discussion with T Irwin it appears this is some form of biting Midge larvae in the genus Formicopyia.
from TI
Your photos do show a Forcipomyia larva. The blunt-tipped bristles on the back produce a hygroscopic substance that causes water droplets to form.
These then run down onto the larva, keeping it damp and enabling it to breathe easily. Forcipomyia larvae the world over share the same trick.
Several species have been described as larvae, but I don't have the article, and in any case, I'd be hesitant to say which species this is,
when some of the species are still unknown in the immature stages.
A website featuring larvae of biting midges with sticky drops on them.
Chaos of delight - Forcipomyia larvae
Cresponea premnea
Needs the dry bark of veteran trees (Oak, Holly, Yes & occasionally Beech, Lime, Hornbeam & Rowan) at least 300 yrs old
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Brown Cup (Rutsroemia firma)
Lichen Sp 3
Sadly this was not Hawthorn Twiglet
Microscopically it was found to be Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracia)
Witches Butter (Exidia Sp)
Harvestmen Sp
Opilio canestrinii
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)?
Hypogymnia physodes
Harvestmen Sp
Oligolophus hanseni
Parmelia saxatilis
Rather than the more usual 8-spored Asci, this one can have 100-200 spores as the image from the recent Gressenhall workshop shows
Sarcogyne regularis
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Verrucaria nigrescens f tectorum
Yoke-moss Sp
Seem to be growing on the church brickwork but actually growing on another moss remains - Wall Screw-moss (Tortula muralis)
The gemmae have both transverse and longitudinal cell walls (all taken from the same cushion).
Zygodon Sp
Green Ypke-moss (Zygodon virdissimus)
Chaenotheca trichialis
Crustose and granular to squamalose.
Stalked fruiting body
Very rare occurs only in the dry recesses of acid bark and wood.
Cladonia coniocrea
Variable Oysterling (Crepidotus variabilis)
Flavoparmelia caperata
Foliose Lichen
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Lecanactis abietina
Crustose Lichen Mostly infertile but with asexual fruiting bodies (Pycnidia) the white pruinose (powdery granules) tips scattered over the surface
Widespread
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Pertusaria pertusa
Unusually an algal green, normally a greenish grey thallus.
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Licheniicolous Fungi Sp
Milospodium graphideorum
on
Schismatomma cretaceum/decolorans
in fact
on
Sporodophoron (Schismatomma) cretaceum (first record for VC 27
Golden Dust Lichen (Chrysothrix candelaris)
Again an Algal green rather than the more usual dark grey
Pertusaria hymenea
A number of lichenicolous fungi use this species
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Sporodophoron cretaceum - K+ Yellow
Evernia prunastri, with Parmelia sulcata above.
Thanks to RY for corrections and additions.
Dole Plantation
Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum)
Capillary Thread-moss (Bryum capillare)
Carex Sp
Possibly Long-stalked Yellow Sedge (Carex lepidocarpa)?
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia Cirrata)
Silky Forklet-moss (Dicranella heteromalla)
Variable-leaved Crestwort (Lophocolea heterophylla)
Lemon Disco (Bisporella citrina
Oak (Quercus robur)
An ideal tree for Barbastelle bats because of the bark peeling from the bark, leaving crevices for the bats.
Thanks to MP for the comment.
Waved Silk-moss (Plagiothecium undulatum)
Drumsticks (Aulocomnium andogrynum)
The male organ of Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata) found on the underside of a male plant leaf.
Bryum Sp
The steep sandy loam banks on the root plates of fallen trees are the ideal habitat for the species described below.
Lots of protonema felt around the site of the growing moss.
Poganatum Sp found on the root plate of the above fallen tree
Likely to be Aloe Haircap (Pogonatum aloides) rather than Dwarf haircap (Pogonatum nanum)
but capsules are the only reliable means of identification.
Fungus Sp under the bark of Poplar
Scaly Male Fern (Dropteris affinis)
West Acre
Beech Mast Candlesnuff (XYlaria carpophila)
Field Blewit (Clitcybe saeva)
Spruce Cone Cap (Strobilurus esculenta)
Diaporthopsis pantherina on Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
Egg cases?
Initially thought to be a Leucoagaricus Sp but the gills got darker as time passed and the sporeprint was brown.
The spores were too large to be Agaricus sylvaticus, which looks similar.
Agaricus langei
Lichen Sp
Milkcap Sp
Orange Milkcap (Lactarius aurantiacus)
Uttelry delightful Spotted Snake Millipede (Blaniulus guttulatus)
Oak Tooth Crust (Radulomyces molaris)
Ombrophila Sp on the roots of Alder?
From AC
And finally - the little disco on the alder roots has had me really stumped. Mainly because it was so far gone that the asci had mostly disintegrated,
the paraphyses had burst and their contents were all mixed up in the cortex and the granular contents from these and the spores stuck to the spores
making them look knobbly. but I did manage to get to see mature spores. So I think I now have an ID - Adelphella (formerly Pachyella) babingtonii.
(FTE, B&K1, Peter Thompson, numerous websites!)
Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Enteloma sericeum
Lumpy Porridge Crust Fungus
'lovely ballon shaped spores'
The last image images from AC
Cylindrobasidium evolvens
Ceriporiopsis givescens
Hypomyces rosellus
Split Porecrust (Schizodoxa paradoxa)
Slime Mold Sp
Trichia botrytis comples
Spider Sp delicately traversing the fruit body of Deconica phillipsii
Deconica phillipsii
Ascoryne Sp
Waxy Crust on Alder (Vuilleminia alni)
Douglas Fir Bark (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Blushing Bracket (Daedalopsis confragosa)
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Wild Dry Rot (Serpula lachrymans)
A small Blue green fungus??
Common Mazegill (Datronia mollis)
?
Larch Disco (Lachnellula occidentalis)
Xylaria hypoxylon (Sexual state)
?
?
Cinamon Porecrust (Fuscaporia ferrea) or Rusty Porecrust (Fuscaporea ferruginosa)
Peniophora limitata
From TM
The Godronia ribis on red currant stems (found by Stewart). I couldn't find any cups, only dark brown, spherical bodies, stalkless
(or possibly very short stalks) filled with conidia (9.5x2.9). Many were mature having split open and ejected the internal material.
I found no asci, spores or paraphyses. They don't look anything like the numerous images of G. ribis available for comparison
(FTE etc & good micro illustrations in B&K 1). So perhaps this is the anamorphic stage (previously referred to as Fuckelia ribis)?
See https://www.coelomycetes.org/ascomycota-genera/ascomycota-incertae-sedis/fuckelia/ . These structures remind me of slime mould sporangium.
Buxton Heath
The teeth on the tip of a Common Haircap (Polytrichum commune)
X40
Yellow Starry Feather-moss (Campylum stellatum)
Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica)
X 400
Branch leaf
Stem Leaf
No fibrils
Rigid Bog-moss (Sphagnum teres)
Showing the very prominent prop nose cone bud indicative of this species.
It isn't the only species that shows this feature but being in Norfolk it is fairly conclusive.
Others include S fimbriatum, S girgensohnii and three rarities
Very partial to a baes rich flush or fen habitat
The last image shows the characteristic orange/ginger colour lower down the strand.
x100
x200
This leaf came from near the tip of the shoot.
Fountain Apple-moss (Philonotis fontana)
Very green. The mid leaf have the same pattern in in Smith - The Moss Flora of Britain & Ireland - Pg 790
Intermediate Hook-moss (Scorpidium cossonii)
Two projections on the abaxial surface of the leaf. In the case of D scoparium there are four.
Crisped Fork-moss (Dicranum bonjeanii)?
x 400
Branch Leaf
x400
Stem Leaf
x200
Stem Cross-section
Fibrils to half way across the leaf
Cow-horn Bog-moss (Sphagnum denticulatum)
x40
x100
Spiky Bog-moss (Sphagnum squarrosum)
Gressenhall
Botryolepraria lesdainii
Caloplaca limonia
Puntelia subrudecta
Flavoparmelia soredians
Lecanora campestris
Lecidella stigmatea
Lepraria finkii
Lepraria incana
Punctelia subrudecta/ P jedkeri
These two are not easy to tell apart.
Myriolecis albescens (grazed)
Pertusaria amara
Lots of new growth in the above image
Melanelixia glabratula
Flavoparmelia caperata
Mistletoe (viscum album)
Punctelia jeckeri
Very similar to Punctelia subrudecta. Generally more matt with brown areas near the tips of the lobes. Soralia are also more abundant along the margins of the lobes.
Ramalina fastigiata
x400
x 1000
Sarcogyne regularis
Verucaria Sp
Grateful thanks to RY & AS for help with ids
Elegant Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum pulchellum)
Cley
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Marsh Harrie (Circus aeruginosus)
Pinkfooted geese (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Wolterton Hall
Oriental Plane (Platanus orientalis)
An excellent Bryophyte encrusted set of steps
Drab Brook-moss ( Hygrohypnum luridum)
Crimson-tuber thread-moss (Bryum rubens)
Arrhenia Sp
Supine Plait-moss (Hypnum resupinatum)
Lichen Sp
Thickpoint Grimmia (Schistidium crassipilum)
Common Striated feather-moss (Eurhynchiun striatum)
Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus)
Common Pottia (Tortula truncata)
Small Hairy Screw-moss (Syntrichia laevipila)?
Old receptacles of Common Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis)
Accompanied by Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum))
Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum)
Witch's Butter (Exidia glandulosa)
Soft-tufted Beard-moss (Didymodon vinealis)
Piggledene - Wiltshire
Dorsal view
Ventral view
Spotty Fingers (Frullania fragilifolia)
Grimmia lisae ?
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affine)
Bird's-wiing Foot-moss (Nogopterium gracile)
x40
x100
Basal cells x200
Leaf tip x200
Yellow Fringe-moss (Racomitrium aciculare)
Gemmae on a leaf
Lyell's Bristle-moss (Pulvigera lyellii)
Syntrichia Sp
Lady Belt Country Park
Fly attacked by a fungus
Green Elf Cup (Chlororciboria aeruginascens)
Oak Curtain Crust (Hymenochaete rubiginosa)
Opilio canestrinii
Paroligolophus agrestis
Rilaena triangularis
Cinnabar Oysterling (Crepidotus cinnabarinus)
Fenugreek Stalkball (Phleogena faginea)
East Harling
Something Natural Surroundings
Common Conecap (Pholiotina rugosa)
East Harling
Small Beech Dot (Stigmella tityrella) on a Beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf
Young Scarlet Elf Cups (Sarcoscypha austriaca)
Snowy Waxcap (Cuphophyllus virgineus)
Ivory Bonnet (Mycena flavoalba))
Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloicephalus)
Strong grey Beech (Fagus sylvatica) trunks
Green Elf Cup
Sulphur Disco (Bisporella sulfurina)
Birch Mazegill (Lenzites betulinus)
Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbosa)
Stemonites fusca?
Stump Brittlestem (Psyatherella piluliformis)
Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor)
A stags horn on Oak (Quercus robur)
Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius)
Deer Shield (Pluteus cervinus)
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)
Turkey Tail (Trmaetes versicolor)
Yellowing Curtain Crust (Stereum submentosum)
Crimp Gill (Plicatura crispa)
Olive Oysterling (Sarcomyxa serotina)
(Trametes pubescens)
Much paler (Although the top image belies that idea) than T versicolor and slightly hairy on the upper surface
Snowy Inkcap (Coprinopsis nivea)
Spring Hazel Cup (Encoelia furfuracea)
Tiny Typhula setipes on an Alder (Alnus glutinosa) leaf
Leafy Brain (Phaeotremella frondosa) on Hazel (Corylus avellana)
Common Bonnet (Mycena galericulata)
Orange Bonnet (Mycena acicula)
Small hairy fungus
Lasiospherus hirsuta
Blushing Rosette (Abortiporus biennis)
Toothed Fungus Sp (Trechispora farinacea) growing on a Hoof Fungus (Fomes fometarius)
Small Stagshorn (Calocera cornea)
Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata)
The fusarium state of Giberella zeae (Fusarium gramineum)
Mixed TurKey Tail, Wrinkled Crust & Blushing Rosette
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
?
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Waxy Crust on Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Vuilleminia cystidata
Goldleaf Shield (Pluteus romellii)
A mixed stump of Turkey Tail
Hymenochaete tabacina
Crimpgill (Plicatura crispa)
Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
A rust (Puccinia glechomatis) on Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
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)
Dialonectria daitrypicola on Diatrype bullata on Sallow
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)
Cordate Flapwort (Jungermannia eucordifolia)
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)
Tideswell Dale - Derbyshire
Comb-moss (Ctenidium molluscum) & Greater Featherwort (Plagiochila asplenoides)
Comb-moss (Ctenidium molluscum)
Didymodon Sp
Distichum Sp
Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus)
Fissidens Sp
Rock Pocket-moss (Fissidens dubius)
Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata)
Silky Wall feather-moss (Homolothecium sericeum)
Wood Bristle-moss (Lewinskya affine)
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria fruticulosa)
Pleurocarp Sp
A mixed Medley
Pale Glaucous Thread-moss (Pohlia wallenbergii)
Lesser Bird's-Claw beard-moss (Streblotrichum convolutium)
Variable Crisp-moss (Trichostomum brachydontium)?
?
?
Yoke-moss Sp (Zygodon Sp)
Rambling Tail-moss (Anomodon viticulosus)
Deep Dale - Derbyshire
Aphid Sp
Rambling Tail-moss (Anomodon viticulosus)
Comb-moss (Ctenidium molluscum)
Wavy beard-moss (Didymodon sinuopsus)
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
Wall Scalewort (Porella platyphylla)
Greater Featherwort (Plagiochila asplenioides)
Fox-tailFeather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum)