Pretty sure these are slightly gone-over Amethyst Deceiver.
Yellow Stagshorn
Birch Polypore
Candlesnuff
Turkey-tail I think.
Rosy Bonnet?
No idea - this is a tiny fungus on an acorn cup.
Yellowing Curtain Crust I think.
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Showing posts with label Yellow Stagshorn. Show all posts
Friday, 29 September 2017
Gnome Seats
Here's a few snaps from Swithland Wood last weekend. I'd actually gone to have a look for Fly Agaric, the archetypal gnome seat, but no joy there sadly. Although it is a fairly common fungi I've never made any effort to see it, so I'm going to try and get a couple of hours to have another look this weekend. The whole time I was there it was like being in a hailstorm with acorns raining down from the many oaks with every slight breeze. And they bloody hurt!
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Cramp Balls
I got Cramp Balls today at Swithland Wood. And a Stinkhorn, and Hairy Curtain Crust. In case anyone is wondering, you haven't just inadvertently stumbled on a Finbarr Saunders storyline - these are all vernacular names for some of the fungi I found this afternoon.
Like any other branch of natural history recording, there is a skill to finding fungi. However as I do not possess this skill I once again resorted to shambling about in hope rather than with knowledgeable purpose. It was a dull day in any case, and within the damp woodland the light was pretty poor. It was the sort of light where using flash at a distance just results in under-exposed shots, so it was a case of either very long shutter speeds or flash just for real macro stuff. Whilst this next shot is not particularly exciting, I'm very pleased with it given that the fungi is black, and it was on a dark wet log in the shade in what was already dull lighting. Using a tripod and the camera on self-timer mode, this shot it the result of an 8sec exposure at ISO80 f8.0. I could easily have gone for higher ISO but the shot would have been grainy as hell.
Here's a selection of other bits that I found ..
Like any other branch of natural history recording, there is a skill to finding fungi. However as I do not possess this skill I once again resorted to shambling about in hope rather than with knowledgeable purpose. It was a dull day in any case, and within the damp woodland the light was pretty poor. It was the sort of light where using flash at a distance just results in under-exposed shots, so it was a case of either very long shutter speeds or flash just for real macro stuff. Whilst this next shot is not particularly exciting, I'm very pleased with it given that the fungi is black, and it was on a dark wet log in the shade in what was already dull lighting. Using a tripod and the camera on self-timer mode, this shot it the result of an 8sec exposure at ISO80 f8.0. I could easily have gone for higher ISO but the shot would have been grainy as hell.
Cramp Ball, or King Alfred's Cake (Daldinia concentric)
Here's a selection of other bits that I found ..
Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)
Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Common Bonnet (Mycena galericulata)
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)
Yellowing Curtain Crust (Stereum subtomentosum)
Silverleaf (Chondrostereum purpureum)
Yellow Stagshorn (Calocera viscosa)
Another crusty type thing I can't identify
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