Is that first one a fungus? Looks more like moss or lichen. @ramblingjohn?
Pretty sure the fungi are ffwng clust. The story explaining the English name is from the First Nature website.
http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/auricularia-auricula-judae.php
“Auricula is a Latin word meaning ear. Judae means Judas, the Jew who it is said betrayed Jesus. Older field guides may list this species under the common name Jew’s Ear fungus, a derogatory term that I will mention only once in case you see it either online or in an earlier printed publication and wonder which species it refers to. Other, older common names for this species include Wood Ear and Judas’ Ear - the latter a reference to the belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on an Elder tree in shame after betraying Jesus Christ to his executioners. The legend, which dates back more than 400 years, suggests that the fungal ‘ears’ that emerge from Elder wood are visible residues of Judas’ tormented spirit.”
Elder - ysgawen
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Oh dear! I looked so centrally, I honestly thought the fungi were fingers holding the moss/lichen!! Now I look properly, I can see they lack prints and are not much like fingers really!! To be honest, when I first read your reply, I started looking very closely at the eges of the lichen before I finally twigged what you meant! 
@pippapritchard helped as nothing else in your picture was anything like ears and also, I realised there was no hand attached to the fungi!
My husband just found those. So, here’s the lunch or dinner for today I think. 
Sorry, I don’t know even English word so there’s not word Cymraeg known to me aswell.
And he found also this:
Cnau castan = chestnuts
Something for peeling and eating at the evening along with listening to some music or doing another things …
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Do you roast yours by the fire? There used to be an implement called a chestnut roaster - a flat bottomed pan with holes in it and a long handle, which I think, was supposed to go on the fire. I just put my chestnuts in the hot cinders and ash underneath, or on the bars of the Raeburn grate! As a kid, I thought my step-grandmother’s fancy brass warning pan was a chestnut roaster!
Yes, we roast them too, but pans are usually just made at home. Ummm … something like this:
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Mae cnau castan yn rhostio ar dân agored…
I feel a christmas dong coming on
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Mushrooms… madarch
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For the record: “Boletus” are by our tradition “the only true” mushrooms! what considders them to be edible. Many of us say that we didn’t find (true edible) mushrooms if we didn’t find those and the mushrooms collecting seasin isn’t true season if you didn’t find and pick some of those. You can prepare soup with them, make them fried with eggs, garlic and quite a portion of fresh parsley or you can give them on a pizza. But there surely is many other way to prepare them. Only for Boletus people of our country are 100 % sure they won’t get ill or poison themselves.
However to be warned, you really need to know funghies of all kinds 100 % to know you’re collecting the right ones so if you’re not familiar with this, rather be at what you were taugt - that’s that all funghies are poisoneous rather then really poison yourself with wrongly collected ones. Boletous is actually hard to be mixed with any other funghi, but still. Being careful is mother of wisdom, we’d say.
And, yes, we’re surprised aswell, many people in other countries don’t gather at least Boletus if not other funghies and eat them. They’re yummy and I’m looking forward to today’s dinner already (prepared by my husband as he prepares this stuff better then me.)
(Yah, sorry dear bootcampers who were with me on the Bootcamp. I am not a good cook especially for such amount of people so I didn’t cook. 
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Hmmm … this calls my husband to explore Wales. - haha! He would find them for sure if they exist.
And yes, there is Boletus satanas in our areas too. To Boletus - we call them simply with a name “Jurček”. "Jurček is “pet name” for a Jure what would English be “George” or “Jurij” in Russia for example. I’m not sure why people gave this name of “Jurček” to this fungi, but we know them better by this name then “goban” which is official Slovenian name for this fungi.
Belatus satanas we call with official Slovenian name “Vražji goban” in which name “vražji” tells you it comes from satan and is poisoneus but if you know the funghies it’s hard to mix it despite it’s similar to “Jurček”. It has different shape of stem and true mushroom collector would not mix them at all.
We have quite some songs especially in folk genre of music which sing about mushrooms and their collectors … even the famous folk group “Avsenik” has one.
Oh, and, by the way … my husband is just preparing the dinner of Boletus. it smells really good already and I’m getting hungry. - hehe
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Do you, indeed!
Ah, the simple joyful pleasures of the Christmas festivities…
omg i meant song!
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@pippapritchard sorry about the slow reply (i have been away (photos soon)).
Your second image on Oak is beef steak fungus , the lower is indeed hen of the woods,
and you were right about the fwng clust (i can retire now ). da iawn.
thanks for all the other images (it’s turning into a colourful Autumn).
Cheers J.P.
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Ah ha! Diolch i chi. I found another oak with the same fungus on it today, seems I shall have to find myself a penknife & see what is inside! My challenge now is to find a young specimen as these are all massive ( I put my iPhone on one for scale) that’s assuming I haven’t missed the opportunity for that this year? Not obvious from this picture but these are shedding huge amounts of spore dust too so will start looking early next year.
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I think these are Ganoderma resinaceum - The lacquered bracket.
Hard surface if you tap them, ( the beefsteak as per its name is fairly floppy).
Cheers J.P.
Beth nes i weld yn Norfolk dros yr penwythnos - what did i see in Norfolk over the weekend.
Ci happis - happy dog. (oedd o’n ymlacio ).
Cap marwol ffug - the false death cap.
at this size probably a species of Handkea.
pryf Ichnewmon sp - species of ichneumon.
Llyffant dafadennog - Common toad.
Pibydd yr aber - knot.
Tingoch - Redstart.
melin wynt - windmill.
Cheers J.P.
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A nice spotter sheet here from Wildlife Watch (http://628202242a032dff9975-8a88a36bd5b80e36c3634e14eb705770.r12.cf1.rackcdn.com/NUT-HUNTING.jpg?utm_content=buffer8ae2a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer )
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My Scots friend is careful what she picks, but is pretty clued up and taught me a lot, as on Gower, I only really ever found ordinary field mushrooms. A friend grew oyster mushrooms in her shed and let me have some, but that’s cheating!!
To @ramblingjohn great pics as usual!
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That’s it. Coffee in the keyboard!
And I’d managed to overlook the initial typo too!
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Heddiw - today.
Ffwng cwrel - coral fungus.
Parrot wax cap. drw gen i, dim enw cymraeg a’r hyn o bryd - sorry, no welsh name at the moment.
(i put it in for interest ! note green at top of stem and cap slimy).
Torthau’r tylwyth teg - sulfur tuft (literal welsh translation fairies loaves).
Ysgwydd yr helygen - blushing bracket.
Adain arianaidd - grey shoulder knot.
Ambarelo goesfain - lepiota mastoedea.
Cap cwyr duol - blackening wax-cap.
Cheers J.P.
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