Waxcap #20 - Glutinous Waxcap

It's a few weeks since I recorded this - I'm just a bit behind with the Wildlife Blog. This is one I see occasionally rather than regulalrly although its one of those small yellowish waxcaps that can be missed or mistaken. However the gloop gives it away.

New Species - Goblet

I found a fungus a couple of weeks ago that was either a Clitocybe or a Pseudoclitocybe but I couldn't deteremine to species. Then the other day I found a similar fungus with some differences, that is identified as a Goblet (Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis). Quite widespread and common but a first for me here. The fungi list is getting quite impressive even without the Waxcaps.

Waxcap #19 - the Splendid Waxcap

My favourite is back - in fact this record is a couple of weeks old but Hygrocybe spendidissima is now is two fields. In fact it has appeared in three places in a field that it has not been recorded in before. Shame the sheep are trampling it!

And a second Coral - Meadow Coral

I was wondering where the Corals, Clubs and Spindles were and we do have three now which have all come along in the last week or so. This one via a tiny patch of Meadow Coral (Clavinulopsis corniculata) in the West Field.

And now a Coral

One day after finding my first Spindle I have a second fungus from a similar form. It is something that I would have identified as Ramariopsis kunzei known as Ivory Coral. However I see that the species has recently been split into R kunzei and R robusta and this looks like the latter. However the BMS only has an English Name for R kunzei. I guess it will all get sorted in time!

White Spindles at last

There's been an absence of Corals, Clubs and Spindles so far but at last we have one - White Spindles (Clavaria fragilis) in the West Field. About time!