Swansea Fungi

It's been very misty all week and Kilvey Hill has vanished under a dense grey shroud.  I go for a foray up the hill but I don't pre...

The Blushing Bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa is a very common fungi that lives on dead wood. It forms a semicircular fan shape that can r...

Scarlet Elf Cups, Sarcoscypha austriaca are mushrooms that belong to a group commonly called 'cup fungi' due to their shape and ar...

On the way to kilvey hill, growing on a mound of wood mulch were loads of Stump Puffballs, Lycoperdon pyriforme , (above). I didn't exp...

Flammulina velutipes or Velvet Shank to give it its common name is one a handful of fungi that fruit over winter and is easily identifiable...

 There are not many fungi to be found over winter but there are a few about. In foxhole I found a great display of Trametes versicolor /Turk...

 About four years or so I came across a mushroom that I could not identify. Indeed I could not identify which family it belonged to. It see...