Ben

Snap! Same place last year

Hi Matt, really enjoying your Waxcap posts. I have only found this species once in some light mixed woodland on top of limestone Silverdale area. In your experience sort of conditions do they favour and are they early or late season? Thanks

Blueing bracket, Lilac Pinkgill, Fairy Fingers and Liberty caps found at weekend in North Wales #fungi #fungifriends

I remember your excellent dune fungi blog post from a couple of years ago and have been keeping my eye out for these and Dune Cup

I meant scarlet waxcap #fungifriends

Waxcaps plentiful in North East Wales. Pleased to find some Orange and Toasted waxcaps. As well as first Crimson of year #fungi

I think these are Entoloma conferendum. Pink spore print left by overlapping caps #fungi

Bristly oxtongue

Dwarf mallow in grass verge

Common flax in cemetery

Purple viper’s bugloss escaped into cemetery

North Wirral finds for #wildflowerhour this week

Baby Waxcaps in Thurstaton Wirral. Hygrocybe reidii, Cuphophyllus virgineus and Gliophorus laetus #fungi #fungifriends #fungifriday

Black Earth tongues in tiny fairy ring

Cordyceps militaris. Scarlet club growing from a buried insect larva

Small grey/rufous coral emerging from moss and short grass

Meadow coral. Tiny and fresh yellow coral

Grassland #fungi from churchyards in Wirral. Excited to find a new coral. Tentatively calling it Beige coral #fungifriday

Ebony cup

Orange peel fungus

Arrhenia sp. Possibly moss navel

Old mossy lawns around University of Liverpool’s city campus yielded some interesting #fungi. Particularly the black cups next to old tree stumps. Any help with ID would be very welcome #fungifriday

That is a handsome find Lukas, I’ve never come across it before. Does it grow in habitats with other typical CHEGD fungi?

Some liberty caps for #ukfungusday #fungus

Honey waxcap- with a strong familiar sweet smell. Golden waxcap and an unidentified grey metallic mushroom with white gills on a short graveyard walk #ukfungusday #fungi

Thank you. I think I would have needed a dissecting microscope to follow the key through

Bugloss, Common hempnettle and what I think is Knotted Clover. Attempted to key the clover out for #wildflowerhour

Parrot waxcap

Glutinous waxcap

Spangle waxcap

Blackening waxcap

Nice to see Waxcaps slowly appearing. Now raining heavily so excited for next week #fungifriday #fungi

Parasol mushroom

Amanita muscaria

Yellow stagshorn fungus

Larch bolete

Not many grassland #fungi fruiting yet but the woodland more productive #mushrooms

This plant has had a great year in North Wirral. Long flowering season too. One of my many favourites

Purple glasswort

Yellow is procumbens group red is europaea group species

? Long stalked glasswort

Long stalked glasswort

Colourful Glassworts seen with Liverpool Botanical Society at Hightown. S. europaea group appear beaded and central flower much larger. S. Procumbens group have more cylindrical segments and lateral flowers similar in size to central #wildflowerhour

Drop in night time temperature so thought I’d visit the cemetery. Only a dried up slimy waxcap and this lovely glutinous waxcap (H. glutinipes) were found #mushroom #fungifriends

Should probably only be used as a deliriant/hallucinogen under the tutelage of Don Juan

Small scabious and Bitter vetch found whilst unsuccessfully looking for Waxcaps near Mold #wildflowerhour

Hoya carnosa ‘tricolour’ is a less prolific bloomer than some others in my conditions. The umbels are really big though. Doesn’t smell particularly strong #hoya #houseplants

The wonderful world of Waxcap Grasslands Exploring the ecology, conservation and global importance of these vibrant fungi

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Thanks for your identification

Galls are fascinating and I’m keen to find out more. I found some galls on a willow this week in UK and can’t find anything similar looking when looking through pictures. Please could you help point me in the right direction?

That’s great- I hope you put them to good use

Hi Ambroise, I watched your webinar (excellent!) and was trying to figure out this Mentha from Alnwick growing in a field margin. I would call it M suaveolens except that it has sub acute leaf tips. Down ward pointing teeth, hairy, crennate. Protruding anthers, leaf like bracts

Oh, I read @commonbynature.bsky.social ‘s blog before venturing out in north Northumberland- excellent information on what to see and where to look! 👍👍