Categories
David

Two orange grisettes

Two orange grisettes

Orange grisettes. The species is variable in colour, frequently yellow rather than orange, as in these specimens.

Two orange grisettes
Categories
David

Blushing bracket, below and above

Blushing bracket, below and above

A blushing bracket fungus seen from below and above. The lower side is a mass of pores: the spores are dispersed from these, rather than from gills.

Blushing bracket, below and above
Categories
David

Honey fungus cluster emerging on a fallen trunk

Honey fungus cluster emerging on a fallen trunk

A cluster of honey fungus emerging from a fallen tree trunk, which had probably been brought down because the fungus had eaten away at its heart wood.

Categories
David

Brown birch boletes by a busy road

Brown birch boletes by a busy road

Brown birch boletes, fairly common, sturdy-looking mushrooms. They are invariably found in association with birch trees, though they may be widely spread, several yards from the tree trunks.

Categories
David

Bonnet mushrooms on a garden path

Bonnet mushrooms on a garden path

Growing on wood chip mulch, some bonnet mycenae.

Categories
David

Blushing Rosette (Abortiporus biennis)

Blushing Rosette (Abortiporus biennis)

Growing at the base of a tree, almost certainly from a root which it is eating away at, a blushing rosette – a polypore fungus. It was the first fresh fungus I’ve noticed this autumn.

Blushing Rosette (Abortiporus biennis)