tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65647192155029735492024-02-21T16:12:06.339+00:00Swansea FungiMushrooms found in Swansea, Glamorgan and BeyondUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564719215502973549.post-80586736265450028272012-03-16T18:10:00.000+00:002012-03-16T18:10:57.341+00:00Kilvey Hill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfx0apIHIadKRx7p05g1XWy-SgtSlhBdRRSjIn69z37fjCfLjJDQ3l5LTscBhLhXo2NirjQT2eCGhiNkEN7bndjODm_Q8226whubK2xHzPQK5Ju5hrgFlGAW0BxCpAP-A5W6m8yWHE/s1600/DSC04718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfx0apIHIadKRx7p05g1XWy-SgtSlhBdRRSjIn69z37fjCfLjJDQ3l5LTscBhLhXo2NirjQT2eCGhiNkEN7bndjODm_Q8226whubK2xHzPQK5Ju5hrgFlGAW0BxCpAP-A5W6m8yWHE/s320/DSC04718.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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 predict to find much, if anything.<br />
Even after five days of heavy mist the woodland floor is clearly dry. For the most part my own prediction comes true but I'm satisfied all the same when I come across two fungi fruiting in within metres of each other. <br />
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Halfway over the route I decided to take today I come across a tree covered with <i>Coprinellus disseminatus</i>, Fairy Inkcaps. This particular Inkcap is easy to identify because it can fruit in spectacular numbers. <i>Coprinellus disseminatus </i>is a fungi that creates small, fragile mushrooms, often in swarms covering dead trees and wood.<br />
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The cap is 'striate': one can see lines running from the edge towards the top of the cap. It looks oval at first then bell shaped then convex. It's worth noting that one can see ageing. Fresh mushrooms are creamy buff but they turn grey as they mature and the cap turns from bell shaped to flattening out.<br />
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The fantastic display is over quickly but it's worth seeing the mushrooms in different stages of maturity because one can see the difference and learn from that.<br />
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A few metres away was a <i>Daedaleopsis confragosa</i>, Blushing Bracket. This particular specimen looked rather healthy and I'm guessing that that all the fruiting bodies belong to one, singular fungi within this branch.<br />
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Below is the same fungi but it is young. I found this earlier but I'm sure it's the same thing. I've never seen this fungi at this developmental stage. If one looks at the edge one can see the maroon layers.<br />
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Bracket fungi take a long time to mature while Inkcaps take days. It's worth noticing the difference and learning from it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564719215502973549.post-49737610089845324242012-03-14T18:51:00.000+00:002012-03-14T18:51:08.655+00:00Blushing Bracket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4kHQjp6hd_uoRjPaY7EEzpTZs3lxdRnp8aAWDq2AaWeeICCgQ4ntB0uHDTywMAz3PQcTjpx6FScas6v5zvoeDRBAH1MDlvBy9BDdcXWv3F2G9at-MNsuHai6ItrHBFRnDb6EmhmK/s1600/DSC04277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4kHQjp6hd_uoRjPaY7EEzpTZs3lxdRnp8aAWDq2AaWeeICCgQ4ntB0uHDTywMAz3PQcTjpx6FScas6v5zvoeDRBAH1MDlvBy9BDdcXWv3F2G9at-MNsuHai6ItrHBFRnDb6EmhmK/s320/DSC04277.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
The Blushing Bracket, <i>Daedaleopsis confragosa</i> is a very common fungi that lives on dead wood. It forms a semicircular fan shape that can reach up to 20cms across and where it is attached to the wood can sometimes form a bump (umbo). Its uneven upper surface is maroon but with brown and ochre colours too, concentrically ridged.<br />
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The underside of this bracket consists of rounded and elongated pores which in the photo below is a silvery grey colour, however when handled or pressed on will turn pinkish then darker. The pore surface also darkens reddish brown with age. Sometimes found solitary or on tiers.<br />
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Scarlet Elf Cups, <i>Sarcoscypha austriaca</i> are mushrooms that belong to a group commonly called 'cup fungi' due to their shape and are extremely easy to identify. The fungi fruits over winter and spring and in Clyne they were out in great numbers.<br />
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They live off dead deciduous wood that litter the wood floor and are usually attached to the substrate by a short stem as can be seen below. The inner surface is bright crimson and the outside a lighter shade which is the result of tiny hairs. They cap starts off in a typical cup shape but they can flatten out and become more tattered as they mature.<br />
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The photo below shows some tiny insects called Collembola, which feed off organic matter, including fungi.<br />
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On the way to kilvey hill, growing on a mound of wood mulch were loads of Stump Puffballs, <i>Lycoperdon pyriforme</i>, (above). I didn't expect to find much but there are always crusts about and other bracket fungi.<br />
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Below is Velvet shank, <i>Flammulina velutipes</i>.<br />
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The cap is a tan-yellow orange that's darker towards the centre. Although there are no photos here, the stalk is yellow at the apex but gets darker towards the base and is very velvety. It lives on decaying deciduous trees.<br />
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The first two photos were taken on 24th of February. the second two ten days later and one can see how the mushrooms have matured. These mushrooms are edible but rather flabby in texture and not really worth picking.<br />
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Living off dead birch wood was a large <i>Piptoporus betulinus</i>/Birch Polypore..<br />
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Still in the same place off Kilvey Road was <i>Geastrum triplex</i>/Collared earthstar. The fruit bodies of this fungi is very resilient.<br />
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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 seemed to be Cortinarius but also Agaricus. I could not find it any book and left it with a sense of frustration.<br />
The mushroom did not fruit again until this year in exactly the same place as before and this time after photographing it I asked others via fungi groups on Facebook for help; within the hour several people came back with the same answer <i>Tricholoma focale</i>/Booted Knight.<br />
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One of the problems is that in one book it is not listed at all and in another, the photograph looks nothing like what I found and states that it's only found in Caledonia forests which hampered things. In Bons' book, (which is now out of publication) it is listed and actually does look like the mushroom I picked so it's worth keeping all those old books.<br />
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One of the most interesting aspects of this mushroom for me is its colour. The stipe is scaly with orange/brown tones and it also has ring remnants. The cap is domed and lustrous with a bronze sheen over orange and brown. Many thanks to those mycologists who helped me out.<br />
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It's been almost a month since I went up Kilvey Hill and did a full search, going to parts of the hill that I've never ventured too before which bore some surprising finds. On the way to the hill I came across<i> Mycena vitilis</i>/Snapping Bonnet (above) and <i>Tricholoma fulvum</i>/Birch Knight, (below). This Knight has a very long stipe that goes deep into the soil.<br />
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Also on the way were two more <i>Tricholomas, T.focale and Tricholoma scalpturatum</i>/Yellowing Knight, the photo below is of <i>Tricholoma scalpturatum</i>. It fruits in the same place every year at the bottom of Kilvey Road but this year in numbers I couldn't count.<br />
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Below is a <i>Cortinarius</i> but there are so many in this family (at least 600) that identification is near impossible.<br />
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Another Knight, this time <i>Tricholoma equestre</i>/Yellow Knight. It's a regularly fruiting fungi here and stands out a mile since it's one of only two yellow Knights.<br />
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And another Knight this one is <i>Tricholoma focale. </i><br />
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Along one path was <i>Peziza badia</i>/Bay Cup,. This was the first time that I've ever seen it in such numbers. This year for some reason there seems to have been a glut of particular species. What struck me about these was their size. They were particularly large.<br />
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On a path that I have never taken before I came across an area of land where the trees were less dense and the ground covered in moss, amongst the moss was this very small Mycena..at least that's what I think it is at the moment.<br />
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On the Port Tennant side of Kilvey Hill there are places where wood chip has been left under the trees. Tree bark mulch is favorable to many species of fungi and here, covering many square feet were a variety of 'woodchip' fungi. Below is <i>Hypholoma marginatum</i>/Snakeskin brownie. In the front is<i> Pluteus cervinus</i>/Deer Shield.<br />
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On the way down and home I also came across<i> Collybia butyracea</i>/Butter cap, here in a fairy ring.<br />
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And finally<i> Amanita muscaria</i>/Fly agaric. It's worth saying here that where I found this was severly damaged by fire earlier in the year and I feard that this mushroom would suffer as a result but not so. In fact there were many out and curiously all found on the Port Tennant side of the hill. <br />
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At Lake Pluck, the fungi season has been rich with species and like last year, fruiting in tremendous amounts. The greatest number today were <i>Collybia butyracea</i>/Butter Cap, This is a variable species when one looks at the cap but the surface does feel like butter when dry so it's always worth a gentle touch. The photo of the fairy ring below is this species. The ring itself was about ten foot in diameter and there were quite a few of them. Below is <i>Piptoporus betulinus</i>/Birch Bracket<br />
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Below is <i>Lepista Nuda</i>/Wood Blewit. This year I have found a number of this mushroom, quite large ones too. <br />
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I'll have to look this mushroom up though it's an<i> Agaricus</i>. The dark red discolouration should be helpful in identification. <br />
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The most interesting find today is shown below. It's a Jelly Tongue; <i>Pseudohydnum gelatinosum. </i>I'll try and get some better photos later. <br />
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Above is a photo of the Blushing Bracket/<i>Daedaleopsis confragosa. </i>There was quite a lot of this maroon coloured bracket about<i>.</i><br />
Below are two photos of <i>Clitocybe nebularis</i> /Clouded Funnel. I could not photograph the length this species was growing. The second photo hints at its length, which was roughly twelve foot but there was another arc that was easily over twenty five feet. The brambles and trees prevented me from finding the end.<br />
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It's never fails to surprise me what ends up in the woods. A load of staplers and staples and next to it, the screws and things needed to fix a sink to a wall.<br />
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Below is a lichen, <i>Cladonia floerkeana</i>, the red parts are the spore producing bodies.<br />
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Finally, two brackets which I'll have a look at later as I can't identify them off the top of my head but hopefully the blue tint to the pores will be helpful.<br />
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<div style="color: #990000;">Lake Pluck 21-11-11</div><i>Collybia butyracea</i><br />
<i>Russula ochroleuca</i><br />
<i> Suillus luteus</i><br />
<i>Clitocybe nebualris</i><br />
<i>Lepista Nuda</i><br />
<i>Daedaleopsis confragosa</i><br />
<i>Pseudohydnum gelatinosum</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564719215502973549.post-42873194527614898722011-06-26T19:42:00.000+01:002011-06-26T19:42:24.031+01:00Whiterock . 03-06-2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFgIwkwSLgnYUO3MnQeejN5FFEWVv-ezJE4ew3MtOdVzAWT6IYWtDq8lyEhaf5Msb4DRDl310T2v1D86YXmhFKyy7MJT_IMLDI0XavUxrkzmWaBLvAjRmQ2DsBNZ08g6ZCFgeBq1g/s1600/031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFgIwkwSLgnYUO3MnQeejN5FFEWVv-ezJE4ew3MtOdVzAWT6IYWtDq8lyEhaf5Msb4DRDl310T2v1D86YXmhFKyy7MJT_IMLDI0XavUxrkzmWaBLvAjRmQ2DsBNZ08g6ZCFgeBq1g/s320/031.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Wandering around white rock I found <i>Paxillus involutus</i>/Brown Rollrim for the first time this year. Also in a scrubby patch of grass was <i>Agaricus campestris</i>/Field Mushroom. I've never seen that in this location before. Since I first saw it it has been fruiting regularly over the last three weeks but not in great numbers. However it's good to see this area has been colonised.<br />
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On the 30th of May, after there had been showers following days of good weather, I found a few mushrooms that are often found in the soil this time of year. Especially after a downpour. The photos above and below are of <i>Panaeolina foenisecii</i>. As can be seen, the caps and stems are dark reddish brown, this is because they are wet. When they dry, they will be creamy beige.<br />
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Also hidden the grass was<i> Parasola plicatilis</i>/ Pleated Inkcap, the photos below show show delicate this particular species is.<br />
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Growing in the same place as last year was <i>Marasmius rotula</i>/Collared Parachute. This mushroom is easy to identify by it's pleated cap and unusual stipe attachment to the stem. (See below), <br />
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On the 26th of May I found a large honey coloured mushroom growing in wood chip and bark mulch on Quay Parade Road, by Sainsbury's. (SS 66030 93108).<br />
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It was in considerable numbers and fruiting in many stages of maturation. It completely puzzled me as I found it impossible to work out the family it belongs too. I believe it to be an <i>Agrocybe</i>, specifically <i>Agrocybe putaminum</i>, which is not indigenous. <br />
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Since then the weather has been either dry or very wet and this fungi has continuously fruited for the last month..Another wood chip fungi that is fruiting in the same location is <i>Psilocybe cyanascens</i>.<br />
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It's also home to <i>Panaeolus foenisecii</i>; commonly called 'The Lawn Mower's Mushroom' since it has a habit of appearing after lawns have been recently cut back and sure enough, after the council had mown the area these arrived about four days later and after some very heavy showers over the preceding days.<br />
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One of the most useful distinguishing features of this mushroom is that it's hygrophanus, which means its cap changes colour if it's wet or dry. When the cap is wet it is a dark brown sometimes with flushes of cinnamon and dries to a much light umber/buff colour. The darker patches below show the drying stage with colour change occurring. <br />
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The gills are brown and mottled and that mottling is a characteristic of the mushroom. <br />
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This mushroom contains a toxin called psilocybin which is a hallucinogenic drug to humans. In this species the toxin occurs in tiny, tiny amounts and does not even occur in every fruitbody but could be dangerous to toddlers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564719215502973549.post-82923207947640692822011-05-26T11:03:00.000+01:002011-05-26T11:03:29.065+01:00Early RussulaSince late April I've been finding <i>Russula</i>/Brittlegills in an area in Whiterock. I've been going back regularly to see if anymore have appeared and that my first find was not the one off it could have been. Every week without fail I have found at least one and last week counted six. It's been very difficult to find one in good condition but I did and managed to get a spore print.<br />
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The mushroom is <i>Russula puellaris. </i>I used a <i>Russula</i> guide to help me, took a spore print, peeled the cap and ate some too. I don't enjoy the taste of <i>Russula</i>, which can be hot or acrid.. I confirmed it using the mycokey website.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">It's quite a small mushroom with a purplish rose cap that turns yellow as the mushroom matures. The entire stem turns yellow and the cap eventually turns brown as a result of yellowing althougth if it rains, the colour at any stage can get even more varied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The taste of <i>Russula puellaris</i> is mild, and the spore print is yellow.</span><br />
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In this particular photo you can see the yellowing on the stem.<br />
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The photos below are an example of the variability of the cap colour in this species.<br />
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Unlike the parasols I found a few days ago, these are tiny, about a quarter the size. They are extremely fragile and by the time I got them home they were badly damaged and had already started to go limp. The second photo shows the mushroom at a young age.<br />
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There was also this ladybird with more spots than I would normally see. I've seen a lot of ladybirds this year, well more than I can remember seeing over the last few years.<br />
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Below is <i>Ganoderma austale</i> <i>(=G. adspersum)</i> /Southern Bracket.. Very common on the dead treetrunks here.<br />
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I found this small mushroom in the same place as the parasols. As to what it is I really can't say. I think it's probably an <i>Inocybe</i> but I really cannot be sure. It's one of those little brown toadstools that frustratingly defy identification..<br />
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Lake Pluck<br />
On a walk to Lake Pluck I came across some burnt gorse with <i>Daldinia fissa</i> on it. I've seen this before on a previous walk but I hadn't spotted these before. They are related to <i>Daldinia concentrica</i>/Cramp Balls but only live on burnt gorse.<br />
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I was surprised to see these small mushrooms in the needle litter. It could be a few things. At he moment I'm in the process of trying to identify it.<br />
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Two brackets that I found. On the left is <i>Daedaleposis confragosa</i>/ Blushing Bracket. It's pore side bruises red very easily hence the common name. As you can see, there is a hole where I pulled out the branch it had grown around. On the right is <i>Polyporus leptocephalus</i>/Blackfoot Polypore. At the base of the stalk there is a strong black mark.<br />
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Finally I came across this half eaten <i>Russula</i>. I'll try and get a spore print off it..<br />
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Through sheer luck whilst searching for something else I came across it in a book, then searched online to help my verify it. <br />
It turned out to be <i>Agrocybe erebia</i>/Dark Fieldcap.<br />
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The cap is dark and wavy, with a prominant umbo. The stem is thick, fibrous and tapers at the base where the colour gets darker towars the end. It's gills are an umber-brown colour. <br />
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It also has a ring that sometimes can be found. When young the veil resembles an opaque white membrane which collapses with the most gentle of touches. Click on the photo below to view the veil better.<br />
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below is a phot of more mature examples. As can be seen the umbo is clearly prominant but the colour of the cap is much more brown.<br />
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The last few days it's been raining hard and a welcome relief it is too after all the fires Kilvey Hill has had. On the hill the damage has been extensive, totally altering the landscape in places. One or two of my favorite places for finding fungi have totally changed out of all recognition. One area that was abundant in <i>Amanita muscaria</i>/Fly Agaric, photo below, was reduced to nothing more than ash.<br />
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Even though the Hill was severely burnt in places it was still teeming with activity with lots of insects about. I know very little about insects but this dragonfly was beautiful. If anyone knows what it is I'd be grateful to know. Click on the photo to enlarge the image.<br />
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I didn't expect to find any mushrooms and I didn't apart from the usual brackets but I did come across this, which is a slime mould; <i>Fuglio septica</i> var. <i>flava</i>. This slime mould is in what's called the 'plasmodium' stage, a bright yellow spongy mass...Remarkably at this stage in it's development, it's capable of moving!<br />
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A couple of butterflies who stayed open long enough to be photographed. Again, if anyone can tell me the species I would be happy to know.<br />
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<div style="color: #660000;">10th May After Rain.</div>After all the fires the weather changed from constant sun. All day yesterday the heavens opened and Swansea was covered in a thunderstorm so I thought I would look around for some mushrooms provoked into fruiting by the rain and I was not disappointed.<br />
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At the Civil justice Court Coprinus was back with a vengeance. I'm not convinced it's not <i>Parasola plicatilis (=Coprinus plicatilis)</i>/Pleated Inkcap because the specimens are far too large with a cap diameter of four to five centimetres wide and stalks in excess of seven centimetres. <i>Parasola plicatilis</i> is smaller in every way. I think it must be <i>Coprinus impatiens.</i><br />
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The last few weeks have seen many fires on Kilvey Hill. A recent estimate has twenty hectares being burnt down. It's depressing to witness and occasionally frightening as the fires came very close to where I live.<br />
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I've never seen so much damage but in a perverse irony the fires can encourage phoenicoid fungi, fungi that prefer a burnt substrate. It's been raining today and so I hope to find some kind of fungi as a result of the rain because there are a few species that appear relatively fast after raining on burnt ground. They are ephemeral but other species can colonise the same area but they can take several years. <br />
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Even after the fire, plants like bracken (shown below) are sprouting, annoying though not surprising so is Japanese Knotweed, the floral curse of Swansea.<br />
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In an area called Foxhole there's a patch that is really good for fungi and whilst I did not expect to find any mushrooms I did. It was a <i>Russula</i>, commonly called Brittlegills.<br />
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It was dessicated due to the warm weather but I was astonished and quietly delighted to find something. After todays rain, hopefully more will appear. Due to its state I cannot determine which <i>Russula</i> it is. But after witnessing the destruction on the hill this find is a comfort of sort.<br />
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Walking home I came across an old <i>Piptoporus betularum</i>/Birch Polypore. I have a daft fondness for this mushroom..<br />
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Earlier this year, up on Kilvey Hill I came across a mushroom I had not seen before. I guessed it was a <i>tremella</i> because of its basic jelly like appearance but it was not a mushroom that I could find in any books but I did find it online and identified it as <i>Tremella encephala</i>.<br />
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<i>Tremella</i> is a parasitic species that lives off other fungi. <i>Tremella encephala</i> or trembling brain, to give it a literal description is firm to the touch and indeed it resembles a brain. In the photos above one can also see another mushroom of the <i>Stereum</i> family and online, <i id="yui_3_3_0_1_130322335877756214">Stereum sanguinolentum </i>is given as the host species. The bracket shown in these photos however is <i>Trichaptum abietinum</i>/Purplepore Bracket which is a very common species that lives on conifers and it was on conifers that all specimens were found.<br />
The <i>Tremella</i> lives on the mycelium of the species it's parasitic on so quite often the host cannot be seen.<br />
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Below is the mushroom seen under a hand lens and beneath that one can see a cross section through the fruitbody. The centre of the mushroom is intriguing. What one is looking at is the deformed fruiting body of the host. <br />
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The centre is a firm opaque white core. Click on the photo to enlarge.<br />
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One of the qualities of <i>tremella</i> is that they dry up in sunny weather only to re-inflate after rain. Quite a few jelly fungi do this. A month or so after the weather had been very nice I returned and virtually all had disappeared.<br />
The photo below is of the first <i>Tremella encephala</i> I came across and as can be seen, the fruitbody had shrivelled and hardened into a dark crimson nugget.<br />
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Below are close up photos of the tubes of <i>Trichaptum abientinum</i>/Purplepore Bracket. The lilac colour is clearly visible. As this mushroom matures the tubes turn from purple to a red brown.<br />
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<i>Coprinus</i>, the 'inkcaps' is quite a large family of fungi. They appear similar to <i>Psathyrella</i>, the 'brittlestems' athough they are different. After a few days of rain, whilst passing by the civic court I found a few <i>Coprinus</i>. The stems on these mushrooms are easy to damage due to being brittle and on the whole, the entire structure is fragile.<br />
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This particular <i>Coprinus</i> is coloured a reddish brown, some of the colour seems to be been washed out. The cap also has a pleated suface, which are the gills showing through. The cap was 3cms wide and the stipe 7cms long.<br />
As for identifying this particular mushroom, I have not found it yet. <br />
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Looking along the gills one can see a they are coloured with a white edged. The gills are free from the stem.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At Swansea justice court one can see <i>Coprinellus disseminatus (=Coprinus disseminatus</i>) Fairy Inkcaps. They appear on mass then disintegrate, often within 24 hours..but they pulse outwards with vigour over many days so whilst many die away many sprout up in their wake, moving outwards like a ripple on a pond.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the photo below, are new fruiting bodies and behind the decaying.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I'd been told that morels, one of the few fungi that appear in spring were out at Oxwich. I've never seen morels so a trip was necessary. I didn't find many but they are out in numbers and I did find a few which was satisfying enough.<br />
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Morels belong to a division of the fungi world called 'ascomycetes'. Unlike mushrooms that drop spores from gills or tubes (basidiomycetes), ascomycetes shoot spores away from their outer surface. This outer surface is covered in sacks, called asci which contain the spores.<br />
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When they are ripe and the mushroom is touched or blown by the wind they expel their spores in a way that resembles a fine puff of smoke. Changes in temperature can also cause the expulsion, something I've witnessed in a different member of the ascomycetes; <i>Helvella crispa</i>/White Saddle.<br />
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Below is <i>Morchella esculenta</i>/Morel<br />
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Other ascomycetes include <i>Helvella</i>/Saddles and <i>Plicaria</i> /Cup fungi.. Below is <i>Plicaria endocarpoides</i> found at Kilvey Hill. <br />
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<i>Helvella crispa</i>/White saddle. The slight resemblance to morels can be seen.<br />
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Morels are very easy to identify due to their irregular, honeycombed cap that's ridged and interwoven. The cap is fused to the stem which also irregular. The whole mushroom is hollow. They can be quite large too, reaching up to 20cms in height and generally tend to be solitary however they can be found in small groups.<br />
They are associated with calcereous (chalky) soils yet they can also be found in open deciduous woodland and waste ground. The examples below were found in sandy scrub at Oxwich.<br />
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Morels are excellent edible mushrooms but they must be cooked. Eaten raw they can cause stomach upsets.<br />
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I also came across some young <i>Hypoxylon fragiforme</i>/Beech Woodwart. At this young stage they are a salmon pink colour. <br />
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564719215502973549.post-70158982706736623482011-04-07T15:41:00.001+01:002011-04-14T14:47:00.196+01:00Kilvey HillI went for a look up Kilvey Hill today. I left early and hoped that the weather would stay overcast. I didn't expect to find much at all and indeed, apart from lots of dried out <i>Stereum</i> there wasn't much but I did find one or two things.<br />
Below is a very common species found on birch. Its <i>Hypoxylon multiforme</i>/Birch Woodwart. The fruitbody is cushion shaped and pimply. As the fruitbody expands they can coalese together to cover larger areas.<br />
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Living on dead wood was also <i>Calocera cornea</i>/Small Stagshorn. The fruitbody can reach 1cm high and is also widespread and very common.<br />
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The most surprising discovery was a Coprinus/Inkcap. I found three whilst out and I did not expect to see anything like this at this time of year. Possibly <i>Coprinus lagopus</i>/Hare'sfoot Inkcap.<br />
All were growing out of leaf litter. There's a similar looking variety that lives off dung but none of these were.<br />
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The example below shows how the surface of the cap is covered in a fine, white, dense dust which also covers the stipe too.<br />
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I've added this photo not just because it's pretty but also because this is the first time I've encountered bluebells on the hill.<br />
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</div>At the Waterfront museum in Swansea, emerging out of the wood chip mulch was one of the <i>Peziza</i> family. <i>Pezizaceae</i> or 'cup' fungi as they are commonly called, can be found all year round though many fruit in the autumn. Quite a few are specialists, preferring specific conditions or substrates to grow on. The majority need microscopic aid in identification. I collected a couple but I saw at least fifteen. <br />
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