UK Fungi

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...

Antoine Carter on ASCOFrance has sorted it - to quote him: " I have solved the problem. Having moved server it is no longer https (Secure). It is just http. So just cross the s off. I think you owe mw a couple of drinks for this effort. Tony Carter " Thank heavens he posted this before 11pm on Frida...

I tend to use "vernacular name" but that's by the by. Latin name is fine as the Greek and other languages in the epithets have been Latinised. Indeed there is an argument that there are three Latins - Classical Latin, Medieval Latin and Botanical Latin. The last mentioned is interesting in that if y...

While I understand the reasons for the use of vernacular names, and the Continentals seem to have them for even a lot of micro-species, seeing the list like this highlights one of my niggles. You look down the left hand side and there several species whose name starts "Agaricus" - they are all relat...

Hello and welcome to UK Fungi If you look at the top of the caps of many of these fruitbodies you can see the remains of a mica-like veil ;) . That said there are other species - eg. Coprinellus truncorum which can only be separated 100% by checking the spores. C. atramentaria I would expect to be f...