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)