January 2nd, a few finds!

[goosey]

A wonderful little walk in one of my favourite haunts, Landgoed Elswout brought a few little finds. Nothing out of the ordinary, but after so long with everything covered in snow it was nice to see some fungi again. There was plenty of Trametes versicolor, Trametes gibbosa, Xylaria hypoxylon and the usual Fomes fomentarius - all quite boring.
These were the most interesting of today's finds, but I really am dredging the bottom of the barrel .

1. Flammulina velutipes -Velvet shank
2. A Puffball which some how survived under a foot of snow for weeks on end.
3. Exidia thuretiana - White Brain

1. 2. 3.

4. Not sure about these, possibily a very small type of puffball 5-7mm in diameter on dead wood. This is interesting how one has started to come out of a shuck like skin.

4.

5. These were so cool, I am not sure if they are tiny 1-2mm immature fungi or a type of slime mould. They were on the same tree as the Flammulina velutipes and there were thousands of them.

5.

[bulbosa]

Happy new year to you Shirley.
No 4 looks like a Lycogala.
No 5 is the overall shape of a lot of the Slime moulds although most have very slender stalks unlike your find.
This is certainly the time of year for looking at Myxos and Ascos but it is another set of books to buy and another set of characteristics to learn

All the best for the coming year.

Mal

[goosey]

Originally Posted by bulbosa

Happy new year to you Shirley.
No 4 looks like a Lycogala.
No 5 is the overall shape of a lot of the Slime moulds although most have very slender stalks unlike your find.
This is certainly the time of year for looking at Myxos and Ascos but it is another set of books to buy and another set of characteristics to learn

All the best for the coming year.

Mal

Thanks Mal, for your New Year's wishes and the ID.
You can see by the shadows more than anything that the stipe is quite thin, but thinking about what you said I see probably not thin enough to be a slime mould after all. Annoyingly they are not in a place I get to too often so I can't keep an eye on them.

Have a fungi filled New Year yourself, and I hope it is everything you wish for .

[Cybershot]

Try Phleogena faginea for #5 and see if it fits

[goosey]

Originally Posted by Cybershot

Try Phleogena faginea for #5 and see if it fits

Clever ol 'you, I think you have found it , thanks!