is this a Typhula

Well-spotted. Typhula fruit bodies are typically club-shaped with a distinct stipe. This looks more like Pterula gracilis.

Hello Peter,

I don’t doubt that John (Wood Wanderer) will acknowledge your reply as soon as he sees it. – But in the meantime, I too acknowledge and add my thanks for your reply.

John’s photo piqued my curiosity, and I was hoping to give some sort of meaningful reply to the query.

I suspected, due to the shape of the fruitbodies, that it probably wasn’t a Typhula species – but despite a lengthy browsing session with my books and “associated organisms” references etc. etc. I drew a complete blank as to what this might be.

Pterula gracilis is yet another species that I’d never consciously been aware of, but with your pointer to that species, and some subsequent looking through the books, I’d just like to say that I have definitely learned something here that I would otherwise have remained blissfully ignorant of!

Best regards,

Mike.

Hi Mike – I’m glad the pointer was helpful. Should be Pterulicium gracile nowadays, by the way. Worth checking damp attached dead stems of pendulous sedge for P. caricis-pendulae which I think is probably quite common, but easily overlooked.

Cheers Peter. – Points noted.

Regards,

Mike.