UK Fungi

Thanks for coming back with the additional photos. - And very nice to hear that you enjoy your garden having more than just grass in the lawn. Far too many people are too eager to get rid of anything that doesn't comply with a sanitized vision of nature! ;) I think they do look good for being B.plum...

Hi, and welcome to UK Fungi. I think they have more of the look of "Stinkhorn Eggs". - Most probably of the species Phallus impudicus , rather than puffballs. - Although having said that, some of the "Bovista" puffball species would look quite similar, Were any of them partially buried? - Were they ...

Hi, and welcome to UK Fungi. As you will appreciate, laboratory fungal cultures on agar plate and the like, are, realistically, half a world away from field mycology, and a rather specialist branch at that! ;) Certainly worth a shot posting here, but most of our contributors, (including me :oops: ),...

I hope its ok to post an Oomycete . . . . Hi Jenny, Most certainly! - Anything and everything concerned with the world of UK fungi is more than welcome. As per Chris's suggestion, I've moved the topic into this forum. - (It may be more relevant here for anyone searching in future). Regards, Mike.

. . . As I said in another of my replies that has not been posted, we are not the super worried people who wash their hands at every touch, etc. We allow them to know nature. To play and to get the odd 'germ'. But in that reply that wasnt posted...i was worried that hands on the ground. Crushed fun...

I do hope that you will take away some positives rather than just negatives from this, and that you might gain some understanding of why those with some knowledge of the subject tend to get upset when fungi are needlessly destroyed. A manifestly obvious example I know, but imagine, for example, how ...

The small one is almost certainly a newly emerging fruitbody of the same species as the others. They will have grown from spores which will either have been in the cactus compost/soil, when you obtained it, or carried there by air currents. (Fungus spores are literally everywhere!). Can't be certain...

A useful resource is Kew's Herbtrack https://herbtrack.science.kew.org/search Type in "Daldinia" and click "Search" and you can run through the list of finds and look for the ones from GB and Ireland. Cheers Chris. - As you say, that could be useful. ;) I don't suppose you have any knowledge of wha...

Thanks once again, Nelly. - Your comments are always appreciated! My last walk up Blencathra, (described in my previous post, above), was a short up-down affair via Sharp Edge and Hall's Fell Ridge. This time though, my walk would be near enough three times the distance, and with more than twice the...

Hi Nelly, As you probably know, determining any fungus species with 100% confidence from a photo can be somewhat tricky. Your find does seem to have all the right macro characteristics for Daldinia concentrica - i.e. (certainly one of) the stromata looks to be well over 25mm in size, and the surface...

Hi,

It's one of the Peziza species of "cup" fungus. - Possibly Peziza repanda, but there are other look-alike species.

Regards,
Mike.

Hi,

I may be wrong, but think these have all the general hallmarks of Agrocybe praecox.

Regards,
Mike.