Clumber Park teeming with fungi

[FungiJohn]

Hello all

I visited Clumber today with the intention of strolling down Trumans drive and then spending the day on Limetree Avenue. A walk usually taking 20 minutes but today it took over 3 hours!

Each side of the drive was littered with fungi and I recorded well over 40 species just yards away from the drive.

At the crossroads I ignored Limetree avenue and carried on to Leaping bar wood and cedar avenue, returning to Limetree via Ash tree wood where I recorded another 30 or so different species en route.

The last hour, in pouring rain on Limetree avenue produced it's usual variety and left me very tired but also very grateful. I even found a Cyathus species ... still with their hats on ... For those who don't know, this genus has eluded me for some time

I'll upload some of the images when time allows, tomorrow I'm with Les at Longshaw and I expect it will be very similar day

Now it's time for a good soak and maybe a few beers

John

[cybershot]

Sounds as though you deserve it John - looking forward to the images on the Gallery

[KeenTeen17]

Lets hope the WAB meet features as many or even more species

[ron1863]

Must be great down there now John, I spent four hours the other day for six species. Still, it won't be long until they show, I hope.

[Ditiola]

Hi John
The Cyathus species sounds very interesting. I have not recently managed to find any Cyathus in the Midlands. About 30 years ago I worked in a tree nursery in Derby and we used to import trees from Hillier’s in Winchester. The roots used to be wrapped in Hessian sacks and packed with straw, this waste straw was then rotovated into the soil and a pre-emergence herbicide applied to keep the ground free of weeds. The slightly buried straw without competition from weeds became the habitat for hundreds of thousands of fruit bodies of Cyathus olla presumably imported with the straw. I had very little knowledge of fungi at the time and though they must have been a very common fungus.

This Friday In my local park I did find huge troops (several hundred) fruit bodies of Crucibulum lavae all with their hats on growing on wood chip mulch on shrub beds. I shall be going back today to see if the hats are off ready for a photo.

Pete

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Ditiola

Hi John
The Cyathus species sounds very interesting. I have not recently managed to find any Cyathus in the Midlands. About 30 years ago I worked in a tree nursery in Derby and we used to import trees from Hillier’s in Winchester. The roots used to be wrapped in Hessian sacks and packed with straw, this waste straw was then rotovated into the soil and a pre-emergence herbicide applied to keep the ground free of weeds. The slightly buried straw without competition from weeds became the habitat for hundreds of thousands of fruit bodies of Cyathus olla presumably imported with the straw. I had very little knowledge of fungi at the time and though they must have been a very common fungus.

This Friday In my local park I did find huge troops (several hundred) fruit bodies of Crucibulum lavae all with their hats on growing on wood chip mulch on shrub beds. I shall be going back today to see if the hats are off ready for a photo.

Pete

Hi Pete

The Cyathus turned out to be C. Olla. I found it near cedar avenue on small twigs. Only 4 fruitbodies and not anywhere like the number most people find

Last years find in the same location produced just the one fruitbody! Let me know how you go on with the Crucibulum lavae pete.

Still, it's a start but I would like to photograph a large group of these ... one day!

Todays foray at Longshaw with Les was just as frantic as Clumber.

Waxcaps were many and so too were several Amanita's

Sorting out the images and ID'ing several species may take a while but hopefully I'll sort them out before autumn

I think an early night may be in order ... I'm wacked!

John

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by ron1863

Must be great down there now John, I spent four hours the other day for six species. Still, it won't be long until they show, I hope.

It could be your glasses Ron. they don't look right to me mate

[Ditiola]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Hi Pete

The Cyathus turned out to be C. Olla. I found it near cedar avenue on small twigs. Only 4 fruitbodies and not anywhere like the number most people find

Last years find in the same location produced just the one fruitbody! Let me know how you go on with the Crucibulum lavae pete.

Still, it's a start but I would like to photograph a large group of these ... one day!

Todays foray at Longshaw with Les was just as frantic as Clumber.

Waxcaps were many and so too were several Amanita's

Sorting out the images and ID'ing several species may take a while but hopefully I'll sort them out before autumn

I think an early night may be in order ... I'm wacked!

John

John
I have some nice photos of Crucibulum and will post a photo soon but want to see if I can get an even better shot when they have more hats off, although the weather is not so good now.

Peter