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Hi
I won't comment until I can see the pics - not your fault, I fully appreciate, Simon. Do you have images of the smut spores?

cheers
Chris

Hello, this is most likely Disciotis venosa. If you have a microscope at hand, you can pick a small piece of the hymenium and squash it in Melzers Reagens (or Luglos solution) -> if the ascus tips turn blue it is a Peziza species. If the ascus tips do not turn blue, it is not a Peziza species, but ...

Ophiobolus ponticus Petr. Ophiobolus ponticus.jpg The background information is all in the image. This is the second British record - see: http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?intGBNum=62627 . More about the species here (Paul Cannon has updated the info based on this collection): htt...

Hi
a section through the fruitbody can furnish useful information. There is a helpful basic key here: http://www.fieldmycology.net/GBCHKLST/key.asp?KeyID=8

best wishes
Chris

Chris Could you give a few more details of the collecting method please. Do you just scoop the foam into a container and add some fixative. Then examine straight away under the microscope? How much fixative to sample? My usual technique has been to use a plastic teaspoon to scoop up foam into a col...

A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to sample a "foam cake" which had formed (quite naturally) in a small stream near the Yorkshire coast. CB foam 01.jpg The sample contained a fabulous "bloom" of diatoms - I might post a few images in due course. There were also conidia of around half a doze...

Welcome to UKFungi Anna This is one of the horsetails which has separate fertile and vegetative (photosynthetic) stems. I think this could well be Equisetum telmateia , Great Horsetail; a rather splendid plant in full growth - worth a visit later in the year. See: http://www.freenatureimages.eu/plan...

Hello Steve.
The anagramatisation is quite deliberate - see: http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/word/anagram.html. That whole website is well worth exploring - though unforgivably fungi appear to be totally absent . . .

Chris

Hello and welcome to the forum. Hardly a guess - you are quite correct, this is stage II of Miyagia pseudosphaeria . The key feature is the ring of dark brown paraphyses, with practice and with a x10 lens this feature can be recognised in the field. Miyagia pseudosphaeria 0b.jpg The only other rust ...

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