Fungus Of The Day (One identified fungus only please, with species name in attachment comment and in post)

[diggleken]

Blackening Waxcap - Hygrocybe conica still? Still gorgeous though.
My second waxcap - H reidii two weeks ago - its all starting on the meadows........

[marksteer]

Blackening Waxcap - Hygrocybe conica still? Still gorgeous though.
My second waxcap - H reidii two weeks ago - its all starting on the meadows........

We found a few Waxcap species at Mynydd y Gaer today - around 20 species recorded at this location in the last 4 years!

[Chris Yeates]

Rhytisma salicinum found today on on Salix caprea - rather uncommon in England: https://data.nbn.org.uk/Taxa/NBNSYS0000019990

If you find the fallen affected leaves in late winter, with a bit of care they can be encouraged to go through to the ascus forming stage:

cheers
Chris

[adampembs]

If you find the fallen affected leaves in late winter, with a bit of care they can be encouraged to go through to the ascus forming stage:

Rhysal0a.jpg

cheers
Chris

Interesting! How do you "care" for these leaves to get the asci?

[Flaxton]

Maybe it is just the colour but I always love finding X rubellus

Mal

[Lancashire Lad]

Very nice Mal.
One that I've not yet seen.

Regards,
Mike.

[Flaxton]

It is more common the further south you go.
Mal

[Lancashire Lad]

Cortinarius bolaris - Dappled Webcap.

Caught by a small pocket of sunlight in what is normally quite a shady part of the wood.
The stark afternoon sun seems to have given these freshly appeared fruitbodies an almost "Hi-Viz" colouration.

Cortinarius bolaris - Dappled Webcap.

Regards,
Mike.

[Wood Wanderer]

Well done Mike

Yet another cracking photo, made worse for me as it's another I have never seen ...

Regards

John

[Leif]

Lovely specimens. John, I see them from time to time in oak-beech woodland, not uncommon in the New Forest. Apparently it favours acidic and sandy soil, there's a lot of that down here.

[Chris Yeates]

If you find the fallen affected leaves in late winter, with a bit of care they can be encouraged to go through to the ascus forming stage:

Rhysal0a.jpg

cheers
Chris

Interesting! How do you "care" for these leaves to get the asci?

As I remember I moistened them in boiled > cooled tap water in Mid-April; then kept damp in daylight (important I think) - you need to sync with when the fresh young leaves are coming out on the trees.
I just hit lucky. You could practise a few different techniques with Rhytisma acerinum - no shortage of that . . .
cheers
Chris

[Lancashire Lad]

Microglossum viride - Green Earthtongue.

These appear in large numbers at the same spot every year, and I can't resist taking just one more shot whenever I see them!
(Photographed on site - focus stack of four images, with Lastolite reflector to throw some light under the canopy of Beech trees).

Click on image to view at full size.

Microglossum viride - Green Earthtongue.

Regards,
Mike.