Tuesday 16 October 2018

Oct 16th Mousehold Heath

Fungi Foray at Mousehold Heath
Mousehold Heath was hosting a fungi foray walk this afternoon. As always, fungi expert Tony Leech was taking it as he identified and talked about each species we were finding. As this event is often quite popular, I wasn't surprised to see a lot of people have arrived for this afternoon's walk. Unfortunately though, due to the unusually warm autumn that we've been having, fungi were a bit thin on the ground this year. That meant the list of species wasn't quite as long as last year, but we still managed to find a few interesting ones that might be new to the site (though don't quote me on that).












Small Coppers
Some kind of Shieldbug?
Red Lead Roundhead

The ones that got Tony really interested (and in return my attention, too) were; red lead roundhead (an orange toadstool that grows on wood chippings and can be found as widespread as New Zealand and the Americas), dog's stinkhorn (which is a much scarcer species of stinkhorn that's much thinner with a smaller tip) and willow shield (which is apparently a class A drug!).





Willow Shield

Dog's Stinkhorn







Clouded Funnel
Here's what else we found today...


Tree Stump Puffball 



Purple Pore Bracket 
Purple Pore Bracket 
Lilac Bonnet
Birch Polypore
Wood Woolyfoot
Common Rustgill
Sulphurtuft
Sulphurtuft
Southern Bracket
Brown Rollrim
Pale Oyster
Turkeytail
Oyster
Shaggy Parasol
Crimped Gill
Candlesnuff
Rosy Wood Mushroom
Common Stinkhorn
More Sulphurtuft
The Prince (brought over from Bungay, Suffolk)
 

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