Luddenden Dean fungi

The above images are of the Scarletina Bolete (Neoboletus luridiformis)

It is identified by the red dots on a yellow stipe,
red pores (instead of gills), yellow spore tubes, and a brown, velvety cap.
It's flesh turns quickly blue when cut (see image above).

The above two images are of the Grey Spotted Amanita (Amanita excelsa var. spissa)

I got very excited thinking I'd found a Panther Cap, but Peachy Steve put me on the right track.
Panther Caps do not have striations on the stipe ring (which this did), 
and they also have a distinct rim to the volval sack that the fruit body emerges from. 

Another Amanita. This time, The Blusher (Amanita rubescens).

You can see the the pink 'blush', at the stipe base, where it has been damaged by slugs.

The above image is of the Dung Loving Psilocybe (Deconica coprophila).

Egghead Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus)-Midgely Moor 14/7/19

This fungus is coprophilous (grows on dung).

You can see the partial veil (membrane) on the left hand mushroom, which protects the gills as it grows.

When the cap expands, this leaves behind a short lasting ring on the stem ( can just be made out on right hand mushroom).

This starts off white and quickly turns black, when stained with spores.

The caps of this fungus are usually shiny, dry, and often become wrinkled.

The above two images are of the False Deathcap (Amanita citrina)- Jerusalem Farm, 14/7/19

This fungus can be white, ivory, or have tinges of luminous yellow.

It emerges from a sac-like structure called a volva, like other Amanitas.

It has veil remnants on the cap, and usually a ring hanging from the stem (absent on this specimen).

The big give away when identifying this fungus is it smells of raw potatoes.

Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)-Jerusalem Farm 14/7/19

This fungus grows on living and dead deciduous wood. It ranges in cap colour from nearly white, to dark blue-grey.

It has a faint smell of aniseed when fresh. This fungi is carnivorous.

It emits chemicals that attract microscopic nematode worms, which it then catches with its hyphae (fungal threads).

From Luddenden, Halifax, to Zante, Greece!

Nettle Rust (Puccinia urticata) Lower Saltonstall-May 2019

Jelly Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae) Upper Saltonstall-May 2019.

Growing on Elder, as most frequently is.

Hence one of its other names, Judas' ear, as the biblical Judas was reputedly hanged on an elder tree.

The above two images are of a fungus-like structure I found growing on a rock, under the sea,
whilst swimming in Zante, Greece (June 2019)

No idea what it is, so any suggestions welcome. There were lots of them.

The cap texture was just like a mushroom, and the stem was tough.

Tremella foliacea

On a dying Oak in the road up to Blackshaw Head in Colden Clough today. Annie Honjo's photo.

Possibly Elfin Saddle and an unidentified fungus over on main blog

At the Calcareous Rock Outcrop in Colden Dale on Sunday 25th Feb, we found the two fungi above.
See Calderdale-wildlife blog.

Pithya still fruiting well at Ogden Res.

Today at Ogden Reservoir, Calderdale. I haven't seen it since the first winter it was found by Bruce Hoyle, and after great persistence on the part of Alison Galbraith, it was identified for us at Kew, how many years back I can't remember. Two or three?

The barrier of old Christmas trees, where the Pithya grows on the dead Abies nordmannii between the perimeter path and the water, a way of disposing of them, while also preventing dogs entering the water and the shore, where birds can now breed without disturbance. (If they can tolerate the many walkers and dogs that pass close by.)

New (to me) bracket 5.2.17 Elland

Might be just Turkeytail, but looks different to me; the way it is reaching upwards and convoluted. It  is also beautifully bright and translucent in the sunlight. Found under the powerlines near Cromwell Bottom where the trees are lopped by contractors and the branches left to lie. The fungus was on cut oak branches

Some unidentified species

This could well be a slime-mould. It was on a dead tree stump at Ogden Res. on 16th Nov. 2016

Apparently it's a fungus - one of the Ascocoryne species, Purple Jellydisc (from Peachysteve.) 

The coin is a 10p. These tiny fungi are growing with a thin layer of moss on the concrete wall-tops along the dam at Baitings Res. 20th Nov. 2016.

Peachysteve comments: Probably Small Oysterling Arrhenia retiruga, reportedly rare but apparently common. 

The ones with the coin above.

Light going by the time we got to Ryburn Res so this is the best I could get of some tiny (Mycena ?) also growng with moss on the concrete wall balustrade-tops along the dam on the same day 20th Nov. 2016.   Peachysteve comments: Probably a Galerina species, common with moss. 

Ryburn Valley - 18.09.2016

A few interesting finds from the latest Society Walk.

Around the Mill Pond at Rishworth Mill we found this beautiful Cep

(Boletus edulis)

Then we found an interestingly formed fungus which had grown an inverted cap on top

Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina)

But the highlight was found on the river path between Ripponden and Rishworth

A fungus which parasitises the mycelium of another fungus

A rare sight but worth looking out for at this time of year

 Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum)

Parisitised by Parasitic Bolete (Pseudoboletus parasiticus)

 

Foray to Holywell Green area (and Gosport Clough) 25.10.15

Fungus Foray to the Holywell Green area 25^th October 2015

With thanks for rarer species/groups identification by Peachysteve.

The find of the day (year?) was Violet Coral (Clavaria zollingeri)

Two fruiting bodies some yards apart, in the steep mossy pasture between the Beech plantation and the woods of Gosport Clough.

(A sketch plan is in Annie Honjo’s notebook)

Also new to us was Fairy Inkcaps

Present: Members Steve Blacksmith (leader) Peachysteve, Annie Honjo, Mike Brook,

Tess(guest) and Andrew (guest.)

Fly Agaric
The Deceiver
Amethyst Deceiver
Snowy Waxcap
Candlesnuff
Common Inkcap
Turkey Tail
Black Milking Bonnet
Fairy Inkcap (Coprinellus disseminatus)
Angel's Bonnet
Trooping Funnel
Earthy Powdercap
Oak Milkbug
Tar Spot
Yellow sp. of Club
Dewdrop Mottlegill
Golden Waxcap
Apricot Club
Heath Waxcap
Stump Puffball
Hairy Curtain Crust
Brown Oak Cup (Rutstroemia firma)
Oak Bark Spot
Beech Woodwart
Blackening Brittlegill
The Blusher
Beech Tar Crust
Boletus sp. (small)
Russula sp. (Yellow Cap)
Meadow Waxcap (Large number.)
Slimy Waxcap
Gallerina sp.
Pink Waxcap
VIOLET CORAL two fruiting bodies some metres apart
Parrot Waxcap
Splendid Waxcap
Butter Waxcap
Crested Coral
Magic Mushroom (Liberty Cap.)
Orange Waxcap
Bleeding Broadleaf Crust
Charcoal Burner
Meadow Coral
Clouded Funnel
Common Rustgill

Scribe SB - checked Peachysteve

Stoodley Glen 18.10.15

Our Foray at Stoodley Glen produced the following list: With thanks to Peachysteve for id's of less common fungi.
(Further information on the day's sightings is over on Calderdale-wildlife.blogspot.)

Birch Polypore (Latin names will be added later if I have time)
Dark Honey Fungus
Un-id woodland Agaric
Un-id bracket possibly young Turkeytail
Russula sp. (grey cap)
Holly Speckle
Oak twig spot
Birch twig spot
Elfin Saddle
Oak twig spot (different from above)
Oak twig white crust (Split Porecrust)
The Deceiver
Magic Mushroom (Psilocybe semilanceata)
Common Earth Ball
Birch twig spot (oval spots)
Toughshank (Collybia sp)
Pinkgill (Entoloma sp.)
Petticoat Mottlegill
Meadow Waxcap
A red Waxcap prob. Hygrocybe splendissima
Egghead Mottlegill
A yellow Waxcap  H. chlorophana
Heath Waxcap
Pink Waxcap
Yellow Brain on dead Gorse stem
Amethyst Deceiver
Crested Coral (possibly)
Brown Roll-rim
False Death-cap
Boletus sp. (Red-cracking group.)
Webcap sp.
The Blusher
Clustered Toughshank
Bell sp. (Gallerina sp.)
Brown Birch Bolete
A Stereum crust on dead Hawthorn trunk
Common Bonnet
Bulbous Honey Fungus
Artist's Bracket
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Approx. 38 species in approx. 3 hours.

Peachysteve adds these links, etc

 One of the oak spots, I'll call it Oak Bark Slit (it has no common
name) http://www.ispotnature.org/node/390716?nav=search
 The other http://www.pbase.com/nottsfungigroup/image/147868143
 One of the birch bark spots
http://www.pbase.com/nottsfungigroup/image/147868142
Oak twig white crust was Split Porecrust
Crust on dead Hawthorn trunk was a stereum species
The Leccinum was Brown Birch Bolete

Porcelain Fungus - Copley - 10.08.15

Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella mucida)

Often considered as growing specifically on dead Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

This is the second time I have found it on living Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea)

Both times on the oaks between the canal and river surrounding the playing fields nr Hollas Lane.

A very attractive fungus with a glossy white cap.

The gills can be seen through the thin cap giving a striate appearance to the bottom edge.

Here you can see the stem ring and the distant gills.