Looks like you had a good day ddoe @ramblingjohn. The ffyngau have been showing well yng Nghymru hefyd.
These were high up on a horse chestnut - castanwydden y meirch
O dan derwen - underneath an oak
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I’m posting these in batches because the broadband is so dodgy!
Some sort of ysgwydd - from above & below
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Possibly Honey fungus which i am failing to find so far.
I suspect a younger version of the Lepiota in my previous post.
Well done with the slime mould (something else i’m not finding).
Heddiw - today.
Cortinarius alboviolaceus (yn gyntaf, rhwybeth am beth mae gen i enw Latin yn unig - first something for which i have only a Latin name),
I put it here as they are quite colourful - lliwiog and eye catching at the moment.
Note: two in image are upside down to illustrate how the early pale gills go a rust colour as the spores ripen.
Madarch mewndro - Brown roll-rim.
Cap brau gwridog - Rose russula.
Cloch ddanheddog - mottlegill.
Coden fwg / snisyn y bwgan - Common puff ball / devils tobacco pouch.
Coesyn rhychog ddu - Black helvella.
Cyrn melyn - yellow stagshorn fungus.
Cheers J.P.
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I was pretty impressed with the slime so went back today & couldn’t find it at first because the colour had almost completely faded since yesterday. The good news is that in looking for it, I found another one. Diolch o galon for all your help with the ffyngau.
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To @ramblingjohn and @pippapritchard This is the opposite of outside and there is no picture - I didn’t have a camera in those days and probably wouldn’t have taken pics if I’d had one! You show bracket fungi and things like hen of the woods, growing on trees. Are any of these related to dry rot? I ask because when I lived in outer London my downstairs next door neighbour found some and tried to deal with it himself. The result was insidious spread in all directions. My downstairs neighbour found ‘mushrooms’ in the cupboard under his stairs and asked me if I had any! I shifted my stair carpet and had a nasty shock, as little mushroomy things seemed to be creeping between floorboards. We all got it treated. All gone nasty dry rot! But as it grew, it resembled some of the bracket fungi you showed.
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Serpula lacrymans - dry rot fungi : is a member of the phylum basidiomycota (possibly the largest phylum of fungi).
I have seen a close relative on the underside of dead pine laying on the ground. (rolling timber over to see whats underneath can be very interesting but please return to its original position afterwards).
I did see dry rot in a roof two years ago that was forming small brackets but it tends to be a thin layer over the surface.
A problem with fungi is that we only see the fruiting body so probably walk past dry rot very often but cannot know it is there.
As for fungi in the home, if conditions are right a huge number can appear on many substrates.
Piziza vesiculosa (i think). growing near me in two places i know of ar hyn o bryd - at the moment.
I have seen cup fungi (phylum ascomycetes) like these growing on man made timber (MDF), and they have a relative called the cellar cup which appears in cellars on damp brickwork.
When i get the new book on welsh fungi names i have heard of this thread may be a bit more interesting.
Cheers J.P.
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This was on Scottish news tonight!
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All these fungus photos have been really interesting. Then, this morning on our normal walk, we passed a nearby building with about 10 feet of grass verge between the sidewalk (“pavement” to you in Britain) and the rather busy road. These were what had popped up there! (Click to embiggen.) I don’t know much about mushrooms, so won’e even attempt to identify them; they do look different than the ones that pop up in our yard (usually in circles).
You can see that the farther of these two is older, because its edges are blacker and curling up. The ones below are just coming up throught the grass.
The grass was sod when the building was built several years ago, but we don’t remember seeing mushrooms there before, so we’re thinking that the lawn-care people who trim their grass every week may have had some spores in their equipment when they mowed sometime recently. Especially since these seem to be in relatively straight lines that line up with the direction the machines go.
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I feel fairly confident these are a member of the coprinus fungi possibly coprinus lagopus but of course it may be a relation we don’t get here.
This family is known as the ink caps, if you had rubbed your finger under the one with curled up edges you would find a watery covering of spores on your finger that is black hence ink.
It seems they rely on their spores adhering to plant material and getting spread on passing feet or as you suggest machinery.
It’s possible that these like some other species also rely on their spores sticking to plant material which will be eaten by herbivores and spread in their dung.
Evolution has taken some species to the route that they rely on passing through animals and will not germinate with out this happening (as have some plant species). thanks for the opportunity to mention evolution - esblygiad.
Cheers J.P.
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neithiwr oedd y trap gwyfynod dros nos olaf y flwyddyn yma - Last night was the last overnight moth trap of the year here.
oedd na’ syndod iawn gynnon ni - there was a great surprise for us.
Ol- adain las - Clifden nonpareil (a first record for this site and a first for me).
According to the NBN gateway (national database) there are only 321 records ever for this rare migrant. A couple of these are on the Welsh boarder, so it’s worth people in wales remembering this photo between August and October next year, someone in Wales will be first sometime.
Cheers J.P.
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Great way to end the season JP! Da iawn!
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Heddiw - today.
mae’n dal posib i weld rhosyn - it still possible to see a rose.
Pryf gwyllt s.p. - caddis fly s.p.
Gwladwr du - black rustic.
Gwyfyn oren linell goch - Red line quaker.
Piswydden - spindle tree.
Cynffon y gath - great readmace.
Brychan tachwedd - November moth.
Cilgant brych - Green brindled crescent.
Cheers J.P.
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I love that the Welsh name translates to what I’ve always know this as - cattails!
Here is my photo for today - on this morning’s walk, the temperature had dropped a great deal overnight, so the lake across the street was rather steamy!
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Heddiw - Today.
Corhedydd y waun - Meadow pipit.
Llydandroed llwyd - Grey phalarope.
Gwyach fach - little grebe.
Cheers J.P.
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Dydd Gwener … (Friday)
Eira ar y mynyddoedd. = Snow on the mountains.
It’s really near me so we can expect it down here quite soon.
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Mae hi’n prydfreth iawn! - I think a view is female!
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