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TOADSTOOLS & BIRDS
My voice / Becomes the wind / Mushroom-hunting . . . . . . . . . 19th century haiku by Japanese poet MASAOKA SHIKI [1867-1902]
BASIDIOMYCOTA - Section contains forms of the fungi division Basidiomycota which includes Earthballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, Puffballs, Jelly Fungi; and section also contains the division MYXOMYCETES which includes the Slime Moulds - I may be a tad confused here but it's close
AURICULARIA AURICULA-JUDAE [Wood Ear / Jelly Ear]. Right is at Forfar Loch, August 26, 2020
CALOCERA PALLIDOSPATHULATA
CALOCERA VISCOSA is found on conifer wood.
Visually identical CALOCERA CORNEA is found on deciduous wood, so they're easy to separate
CLAVULINA RUGOSA [Wrinkled Club]
Guided walk at House of Dun, 2019
DACRYMYCES STILLATUS
[Common Jellyspot]
DACRYMYCES STILLATUS [Common Jellyspot]
Better view of the numbers seen on trees. 2019
EXIDIA CARTILAGINEA
found on fallen, mossy birch tree
EXIDIA SACCHARINA
A Jelly Fungus growing on a felled conifer trunk
FULIGO SEPTICA [Scrambled Egg Slime]
A Slime Mould but didn't realise it had the early white stage [seen far left photo]. Photo right is from Brechin 2019 and on a beech leaf
GEASTRUM TRIPLEX [Common Earthstar] - produces central bulb then the 'star' shape [photo left]. Within a 4-day period this 'star' broke and folded over leaving a 'plate' for the bulb to sit on [right].
GEASTRUM TRIPLEX [Common Earthstar]
Same spot as photo on the left but a year later
HIRSCHIOPORUS ABIETINUS
Purplish underside so not a Trametes versicolor
HYPHODERMA SETIGERUM ?
Like Hyphodontia sambuci but this is cracked
HYPHODONTIA SAMBUCI
LYCOPERDON FOETIDIUM
Puffball in pine litter
LYCOPERDON NIGRESCENS [Dusky Puffball]
Guided walk Brechin 2019
LYCOPERDON PERLATUM
[Common Puffball]
APIOPERDON [changed from Lycoperdon in 2017] PYRIFORME [Stump Puffball / Pear-Shaped Fungi]
Only puffball to grow on tree stumps. Right photo on tree stump, October 23, 2022, Tayock, Brechin
MERULIOPSIS CORIUM
MUCILAGO CRUSTACEA
A Slime Mould found on grass
MYXARIUM NUCLEATUM
[Star Jelly]
Found at Murton Farm Nature Reserve
near Forfar on January 13, 2023
To me it seems a slime mould but sites I checked to verify this, came to some outlandish theories. Some think it's vomited up by frog predators as tests show frog spawn and seeds within the structure. Wild theories include pixie puke or jelly left over when a meteor has landed.
I go with the slime mould as there were various growths dotted around a small area of grassland near a large pond [lochan]
PHELLINUS TUBERCULOSUS
PHYSISPORINUS SANGUINOLENTUS
Has brownish bruising
PSEUDOHYDNUM GELATINOSUM [Jelly Tongue]
Underside shows texture, upper is similar
PHALLUS IMPUDICUS [Stinkhorn or Witch's Egg]. Will smell it before you see it.
Initial black-green head and egg sac [brechin], then right photo shows head cleaned by insects
RETICULARIA LYCOPERDON
[False Puffball]
RHYTISMA ACERINUM [Tar-Spot Fungus]
Fungal disease of maple and sycamore trees
SCLERODERMA AREOLATUM
[Leopard Earthball]
SCLERODERMA CITRINUM [Common Earthball]
Montreathmont Forest, Brechin, 2019
SCLERODERMA VERRUCOSUM
[Scaly Earthball]
TREMELLA MESENTERICA
[Yellow Brain Fungus]. A jelly fungus
TUBIFERA FERRUGINOSA
Slime Mould of a beautiful colour. Left at Pitkennedy Wood 2019, far right seems to be an early stage before colour darkens