Sunday 21 October 2012.
To the park in the south-east of the city, to look for fungi.
Near the entrance, a ring-necked parakeet calls. Mallards and coots swimming.
And today’s first mushrooms in the grass: Psathyrella marcescibilis.
A carrion crow with food in its bill lands a bit further on the grass.
In a wooded part, a slime mold: wolf’s milk.
Bjerkandera fumosa fungus.
Another slime mold: Trichia scabra.
Then, Coprinus domesticus mushrooms.
Stereum hirsutum on a branch.
Then, a beautiful Clavulina cinerea on the forest floor.
After that, on a branch together: the slime mold Ceratiomyxa fructiculosa and common mazegill fungus.
Next, on the forest floor, a group of scaly wood mushrooms.
Variable oysterlings on wood.
Thin Macrotyphula juncea fungi. Small frosty bonnets.
Dead man’s fingers share a tree stump with candlesnuff fungus.
Xylaria longipes, growing on a maple tree stump.
Broad-leaved helleborine orchid plants. Not flowering now.
Snapping bonnet. Bleeding fairy helmet.
Daedaleopsis confragosa on a tree.
Old World royal ferns. Cranberries grow as well in this marshy part. And the rare plants marsh cinquefoil and bog-bean.
Deceiver fungus.
Daisies, still flowering.
Turkey tail fungus.
On a tree stump, three species: oyster mushroom; Coprinellus disseminatus; and sulphur tuft.
A bit further, a tree, on which artist’s bracket fungi feed.
On the meadow, mallard and wigeon ducks. Domestic geese, a few grey lag geese, Canada geese, and a lone black swan.
Then, the forest near the old castle. White saddle fungus.
Earthy inocybe. Coprinellus micaceus.
This year, for the first time, nest boxes for tawny owls were put in the forest; resulting in a couple nesting successfully.
Also, the first nesting white stork couple this year.
In the grey heron colony, a spoonbill couple tried to nest; unsuccessfully.
A honey fungus.
On a fallen tree: Pluteus salicinus.
Finally, Bjerkandera fumosa on a fallen tree trunk.
Good fungi year on Texel island: here.
Dutch coastal fungi: here.
Hygrophorus fungi: here.
Related articles
- How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence (scientificamerican.com)
- Some Fungi For the Weekend (daysontheclaise.blogspot.com)
- Chap 1 classification of fungi (slideshare.net)
- Favourite mushroom poll (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Fall Fungi (shareabitoflove.com)
- How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence (3quarksdaily.com)
Amazing pics of fungi, my grandson is studying them at Uni, and I shall send these to him!
Thanks for your kind words! Probably, there will be more fungi pictures on this blog.