Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
Had another go today at looking for Fly Agaric. We've got our nephews up with us this weekend, so I only had a short slot in the early afternoon whilst the kids were all at the cinema. I headed over to Martinshaw Wood this time, but after strolling around the paths and going off-piste there was no sign of anything resembling red balls on white sticks. I did find a few bits, including these two:
Presumed Orange Peel Fungus (Aleuria aurantia)
No idea - on birch
I decided to leave Martinshaw Wood and head up towards the Charnwood area again, maybe having a quick look at Beacon Hill or somewhere similar. I took the obvious route from Groby along the road to Newtown Linford. Bugger me, as I turned the last corner before reaching the Newtown Linford junction - there bold as brass on a roadside mound were several bright red fungi. I managed to park up alongside the verge and fill me boots, and it was a lot easier than trudging around dark woodland! There were young and old specimens pretty much going through the full spectrum of maturity from spherical to flattened to upturned. I grabbed shots of a few, except the very old virtually unrecogniseable ones.
This one was on the same mound, and there were others that may have been the same but completely gone over.
Brown Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum)
And growing on one of the birches on the mound was this.
Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius)
1 comment:
I think your birch fungus is a Birch Polypore. I know they don't usually look like that, but I seem to recall sometimes finding old ones that looked just like that, concave and wavy-edged. Unless I strung 'em, obviously.
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