Mae’r tywydd yn oriog. The weather is changeable now. Some snaps from the weekend.
Llwyd y gwrych yn bwyta hedyn eginol. Dunnock eating a germinating seed from under the bird feeder.
Wood Hedgehog mushroom - with spines - from my fungi course at Plas Tan Y Bwlch - would recommend. We ate these - would not recommend. Much nicer to look at than eat.
Lichen - cen with fruiting body - & I learned how to label my snaps!
Can you teach us?
I’ll send you a link; it’s Apple specific tho’.
Well, it looks like my fungi course was good value, @ramblingjohn can you help me please … (weeps). Growing at edge of a crop field next to trees / fence line in grass. Spores are white (dwi’n gwneud fy nghorau glas).
From the weekend, a huge fly agaric
Would I have committed suicide by eating this, @ramblingjohn? It looks like a regular field mushroom to me!!!
folk’s lives may be saved by this thread!! How’s that for useful??? @aran
Book say’s, edible if cooked, if you saw this and a field mushroom side by side you would not make a mistake of which is the mushroom.
From Pippa’s photo i thought ffwng mel - honey fungus, the information that spore print was white reinforced my thought.
I will return shortly with more information on these as i found some today.
Also Pippa has given me an idea there in that i should collect some fungi and get some spore print photos over the next few days, if anyone would like to do the same it could be interesting.
Ffwng mel - Honey fungus (there are five species of honey fungus and they can get much larger than these, also note the initially white gills darken with age).
Ffwng ar ffwng - fungus on fungus (this looks like a species of mycena infected by a pin mould).
Ffwng nyth aderyn - Bird’s nest fungus.
Cheers J.P.
The honey fungus looks the same as mine! Diolch i ti unwaith eto. I would love to see a birds nest fungus - where do you find them?
Anywere there is relatively bare ground with dead plant material, sometimes in flower beds with woodchip . (i don’t see them often, today i was lucky).
Cheers J.P.
Honey Fungus spore print. I’m wondering, is it good or a bad that I have brought honey fungus home???
It will be near you anyway.
Cheers J.P.
John, it’s a bit late now, but, out of interest, when my London maisonette had dry rot, I didn’t dare go to my Gower cottage in case I took the dry rot there. I didn’t fret about going anywhere else, so wasn’t very logical! Was I right to fret at all?
I enjoy Autumn at home right now so had some time spent in our garden. This is what I could capture …
Grawnwin olaf hydref hon.= last grape this Autumn.
Afal dan ymosodiad. = Apple under atack.
Yn ni’n cael llawer o hon hefyd. (We have a lot of this too.)
It’s Calendula, but what’s on it?
Funghi bach on our wooden bench. The bench needs some reparation so obviously it’s perfect place for something like this.
Mae’n rhy cynnes. Yes it’s a bit too warm for this time of the year and so instead all would go to “sleep” the nature creates the beginnings of a new life.
I’m sorry you’re all not living nearer me. We have plenty of those - cnau cyll = hazelnuts …
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Although wet rot and dry rot are separate species (one has olive green spores and the other has rust-coloured spores) dry rot starts in wood already suffering from wet rot. After the wood has been dried the wet rot cannot continue but the dry rot continues to grow (hence the name).
Ray has mentioned some very good points, my opinion is that is no use fretting about this as billions of fungal spores mean they are everywhere but will only flourish if the environment is right for them.
Luckily, free air flow seems to be the reason ancient buildings are still in such good shape.
Looks like one of the Xantharia species of lichen. [quote=“tatjana, post:1977, topic:971”]
It’s Calendula, but what’s on it?
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i can’t make out what it is (any chance of more photos).
Mae’n edrych fel Ysgwydd amryliw - looks like many zoned polypore.
Heddiw - today.
ffwng nyth aderyn eto - birds nest fungus again.
I thought i would post this photo showing how they start as a white ball which opens into the cup shape, and perhaps i should say they are know as birds nest fungi due to the spore capsules looking like eggs in a nest, there are of course fungi that grow in birds nests.
Lycoperdon nigrescens - Dusky puffball (drw gen i, dim enw cymraeg ar hyn o bryd) - sorry no welsh name at the moment.
Cap ffwng - fungi caps.
I collected these today and have set them out on a neutral colour board in the hope of getting some spore prints over night (dros y nos).
they are from left to right.
top row:
Madarch y maes - field mushroom.
Cortinarius alboviolaceus.
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca - the false chanterelle.
Middle row.
Tricholoma fulvum.
Y twyllwr - the deceiver.
Cap marwol ffug - the false death cap.
Bottom row:
dau rhywogaeth cap llaeth - two species of milk cap.
dau rhywogaeth cap cwyr - two species of wax cap (parrot wax cap and snowy wax cap).
Twyllwr piws - The amethyst deceiver.
Maybe a colourful morning.
Cheers J.P.
My husband says it’s seed of the same kind dropped on the flower. He might be right, I don’t know. I have more photos, but are all (almost) the same.
I had a good look ddoe but haven’t found any yet, your picture is useful though. I was rewarded for my efforts with jelly babies (enw Cymraeg? babanod jeli?) instead.
Looking forward to seeing the spore prints!
Thanks, there was me wondering if it was an insect!.
mae’r unwaith eto, ti wedi dod o hyd beth dwi’n methu dod o hyd - once again you have found what i have failed to find.
The spore prints were fairly successful.
This may be interesting to people illustrating that spore colour are not garanteed to match gill colour.
Note : top right Madarch y maes - field mushroom you will find starts with pink gills which turn black as the spores rippen.
Top centre: corinarius as a family are know as rust gills, they come in a wide variety of colours but the gills always turn rust colour as the spores ripen.
From left, ddau rhywogaeth of cap cwyr - two species of wax cap and twyllwr piws - amethyst deceiver illustrate that in other species this change with spores maturing does not happen.
Cheers J.P.
So was I and just couldn’t recognize any of a kind … It was all still no matter how close I’ve got with the camera in my hands though so … it probably must be a seed or something similar. 
Heddiw - today.
Coedwig o ffwng - forest of fungi.
Clavuinopsis corniculata.
Clavaria fumosa.
Amanita’r gwybed - Fly agaric. (too nice an example to pass up on a photo opportunity).
Cap niwl - clouded agaric.
Cheers J.P.
Ddoe, ffwng ar dail. Cheilymenia. I thought this was a slime mound until I looked it up.
& I thought this was a ffwng. Turns out it is a slime mould - there’s so much to learn out there. The Wolf’s Milk slime. These are about 1cm+. When popped, they oozed an orange goo.
On a fresher note, I also saw a barcud coch! Whilst the Red Kite is very common in West Oxfordshire it has taken me 4 months to spot one in this little patch of East Wales.
