Tuesday
Feb012011

Brain Fungus

Crystal brain fungus (Myxarium nucleatum = Exidia nucleata) showing the white nuclei particularly well.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-02-21.

Monday
Jan312011

Black Fungus

Probably Exidia glandulosa.  See here and here for my previous posts on this fungus.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-02-22.

Sunday
Jan302011

Bread Roll Fungus

From a couple of years back: a strange fungus which looks like bread rolls.  At first, I thought might be a puffball or a pale Daldinia but now I think is probably a bracket fungus, in particular, a young form of Ganoderma sp.  See here and here for similar images.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2009-07-16.

Saturday
Jan292011

Mushroom

Probably a shaggy parasol mushroom, Chlorophyllum rhacodes (=Macrolepiota rhacodes).

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-11-23

Friday
Jan282011

Orange Crust Fungus

An orange crust fungus, probably rosy crust fungus Peniophora incarnata, growing on the end of a log.  While taking the photo I didn't notice the brown slime-mould like growth on the right-hand side.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-01-26.