Scout Road Park 05.06.2014

There are lots of Brown Mottlegill popping up on the park again this year. 

Brown Mottlegill (Panaeolina foenisecii). They have a hygrophanous cap which dries from the centre outwards and brown mottled gills.

As they age the caps can become cracked and wrinkled.

The cheilocystidia are bottle shaped and wavy with a blunt apex.

Lemon shaped, rough spores. 12-15 x 7.5-10 microns.

05.06.2014

Peachysteve and myself walked the dogs along the top of Rough Hey Wood, along to High Lee Clough and down through Butterworth End Wood to Kebroyd. Pictured below is what we found along the way.

Bitter Beech Bolete (Boletus calopus). It has a pale grey/brown cap, a red reticulated stem and lemon tubes. All the fleshy parts of the fungus bruise a lovely blue colour when handled or cut. I also find that it has an unpleasant aroma to it too but that is just my opinion.

Peachysteve's photograph above and two below.

Spores are olive/brown, subfusiform with droplets. 12-14 x 5-6 microns

Blackfoot Polypore (Polyporus leptocephalus). It has a wavy cap margin, a fine porous under surface and the basal part of the stem is black

We found a slug eaten Deer Shield (Pluteus cervinus), you can just see the culprit slithering away.

It has unique cheilocysidia that have curved hooks/antlers at the neck.

Spores 7-8 x 5-6 microns.

Sheathed Woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis). This has a bright tan hygrophanous cap that is always lighter at the centre when it is wet and a ring on the stem.

Elland Park Wood 04.06.2014

The recent rain has rehydrated these Jelly Ears (Auricularia auricula-judae). Found on a fallen, dead oak branch.

Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). They were found in a group of six.

This is a Stinkhorn egg that I broke open with a stick and you can just see the gelatinous contents inside.

Collared Parachute (Marasmius rotula). I found this lovely group on the side of the path growing woody debris.

Free gills with a distinct collar and a wiry stem.

Life in a dead Pine Trunk (Pinus sylvestris -Scots Pine.)

A Myxomycetes (Slime Mould to general naturalists) "Myxo" for short.

Superficially like fungi, they are far from being related.

This one is Reticularia lycoperdon

around 23.4.15

I don't know if it was a slug/snail which took the white surface off, or if the dark stripes

 appeared by some other means.

29.4.14

As above

By 10.5.14 all the white surface had turned brown

Orchard Business Park, Mytholmroyd 20.05.2014

Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) - found on a willow trunk in the car park.

Cunnery Wood 13.05.2014

There is almost a red carpet of Redlead Roundhead (Leratiomyces ceres) growing on the woodchip in the theatre area in the wood. I've never seen as many growing together at once and if anyone is interested it is definitely worth a look.

Common Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica).

Some of the leaves were infected by Nettle Rust (Puccinia urticata).

 There is a gorgeous display of bluebells. 

 Some of the leaves were infected with Bluebell Rust (Uromyces muscari).

Hardcastle Crags 12.05.2014

Bog Beacons (Mitrula paludosa) seen today in the Crags. There aren't as many here as there are at Broadhead Clough, but they are still as lovely.