UK Fungi

my camera quality isn't great but hopefully these are better :) I have also read the edibility section though no interest in eating them even if edible. Thank you. EDIT: One more thing, I sleep very close to the 'garden', should i be concerned about possible long term exposure to the spores through...

Hi Mark It's always worth reading descriptions as well as looking at macro-type photographs. I suppose I can see the superficial resemblance to Proliferodiscus . Stictis species are very different - the apothecia are sunk below the surface level. Lachnum corticale has very different "hairs". However...

I would recommend the study of coprophilous fungi to anyone with a decent microscope - though a stereo 'scope is really handy as well. It's not as weird or unpleasant an area of study as it may appear - I would, however stick to herbivore dung in the first instance. Trust me - rabbit dung is basical...

Found a couple of days ago on a dead stem in a stand of hemlock, Conium maculatum which must be impressive in the summer as some of the still-standing dead stems were well over 2 metres high. I understand that sludge from a nearby sewage fam was dumped there some years ago - hence the luxurious grow...

Physalacria stilboidea seen today in Shepley, S of Huddersfield, highest site yet I think, at 234 metres. Also interesting is that it was on a Griselinia variety with variegated leaves. I have found two Griselinia shrubs by the baptist chapel at Scapegoat Hill - pictured here: https://en.wikipedia....

I've always been intrigued by these "bivalve" fungi, so was rather surprised for my first find to be on a fallen pine cone from a planted tree in a narrow stretch of woodland fringing a "catchwater" high in the Pennines. The specific epithet " mytilinum " derives from the Latin Mytilus a mussel http...

Nice stuff Chris
I only ever seem to find Botryobasidium anamorphs.I was going to post on this thread but will leave it for a day or so. so as not to push this off "top spot" as it were. Has there ever been talk of a UKFungi Gallery?
t'other Chris

As it's that time of year; interesting discussion here: http://www.ascofrance.com/forum/61108/s ... -coccinea#. There's also Zotto's useful webpages:
http://www.gbif-mycology.de/HostedSites ... scypha.htm
Chris

Hi Chris Stick these images on ASCOFrance, so much better than what's on at the moment (might be worth correcting "pycnidium" first, mind ;) ). Love the section - I'm rubbish at sections - do you have a particular technique? I suppose the structure of the marram leaf gives you guidelines in this ins...

Agree fully with what Adam says above. Is it in a flowerpot? Strange . . . . looks rather like Phaeolus schweintzii - but in a flowerpot

This post brings to mind Jenny Seawright's idea of a separate page for lichenicolous fungi, which I thought was good. Most lichenologists tend to post their LFs on the Lichen page and I'm sure there will be others on various fungi pages. This posting of Chris's will be difficult to find in future a...

Yes, we know that lichens all have a fungus as part of their structure, but there are lichenicolous fungi which exist as parasites, commensals or saprobes on dead lichen tissue. Known as "LFs" to the lichenologists apparently. I suspect this species is not uncommon but few people are looking. This i...