Entries in Fungi (264)

Saturday
Dec132014

Fungus

A rust fungus, probably the aecial form of Phragmidium violaceum, growing on bramble a leaf (Rubus sp). 

On the upper surface of the leaf the fungus appears as purple blotches:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-09-14.

Friday
Dec052014

Fungus

What I think are Chondrostereum purpureum (pale purple and brown) and Stereum hirsutum (yellow) growing on the end of a felled oak trunk (Quercus robur).

Here is a patch of C. purpureum growing out of a crack in the wood:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-11-29.

Thursday
Dec042014

Fungus

Fruiting bodies of the fungus Bulgaria inquinans growing on a felled oak tree (Quercus robur).

The less mature fruiting bodies have a brown crust:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-11-29.

Wednesday
Dec032014

Fungus

Pink jelly fungus Ascocoryne scarcoides growing on the end of a birch log (Betula sp).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-11-29.

Tuesday
Nov182014

Fungus

Ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea, growing on a grass seed-head.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-09-20.