UK Fungi

Seven years ago I found this lichenised Ascomycete on marram grass. I could not identify it. I kept full notes. Recently a request for identification appeared on Ascoframce. It matched my specimen. A colleague sent my photos to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburg where the senior lichenologist i...

Recorded at Ainsdale Sand Dunes Reserve. For many years this was identified as Morchella elata. Kew requested a specimen and after DNA sequencing declared it to be Morchella pupurascens. ADMIN EDIT Post moved, as original poster had created a new Fungus of the Day topic. For future reference, please...

Suggest you look at Pleurotus dryinus.

Have a look at Russula violeipes.

Another possibility is Hericium cirrhatum. The teeth can get a bit untidy when it gets older and fragile.

This photo was sent to me for identification. Pictured on dune grassland at Freshfields on the Sefton coast. My first thought was Cystoderma ammianthinum but I have never seen it grouped like this. Any suggestions?

Found on the underside of a fallen branch, hard, brittle and yellowish, this was treated as a corticioid. It softens in damp conditions becoming whiter. The spores are allantoid, 15-16 x 5um, a few to 20um, some irregularly shaped, with oily contents. Also some round structures that could be cystidi...

I posted this last year as a possible Cotylidia found at Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR. Since then, specimens have been sent to Dr. A. Martyn Ainsworth at Kew. For the time being, it is recorded on the Fungariun Database as Stereopsis reidii. BUT THIS NOT CONFIRMED. It is awaiting sequencing. If it is, it...

I think I have finally solved this. Within the wood, very near the woodchip pile, is a small grassless paddock where children exercise some ponies. This Lycoperdon species also grows in the paddock. The woodchip is replenished with material that obviously comes from the stables. I assume that the ho...

Have you considered Chlorophyllum?

The Manager of Ainsdale Sand Dunes Reserve sent me a photo of a fungus growing with moss and needles on a sandy pathway. I collected this fungus, now attacked by slugs, on Sunday and collected two more in situ. The largest is 2cms high including stem. They look like Cotylidia undulata but the spore ...

Episphaeria fraxinicola. This species looks like an Ascomycete and lives under logs and branches. Only when you look at it under a microscope do you realise it is a Basidiomycete. It is very small. The photograph is taken at x 40. I found this on 3rd February at Speke Hall, Liverpool where they have...