The Fungi and Slime-Moulds of Coombe Wood

This page of Fungi and Slime Moulds has two parts. The first, comprising the two tables below, is the result of two surveys done by Mary Smith of the Essex Field Club. The first was on September 19^th and October 15^th 2012. Mary was accompanied by Gwyn Jordan for the first survey, and by John Rostron for the second. They took the photos that accompany the entries. Essex Field Club members also did a survey in the autumn of 2013. Their results comprise the second table.

The remainder of the page is an ad hoc list of species almost all of which were recorded (and photographed if possible) by John Rostron. The identification of these should be taken as, perhaps, less reliable than those in the table above, which have largely been vetted by Mary Smith. Any reference to “me” in the tables refers to Mary.

For many of the fungi listed below, at the left-hand side, there is a small i-symbol [If you hover over this with the mouse, then an information panel about that species will appear, usually with an image. i] before or after the name. If you hover over this with the mouse, then an information panel about that species will appear, usually with an image. Note, however, that a plain i-symbol [i] is purely a space-filler in lists and does not (yet) provide a link.

The Birch Bracket fungus is common and widespread throughout the wood.

Fungi Recorded by the Essex Field Club Surveys

I have grouped these species into five sections. First are the ordinary ‘toadstools and mushrooms’ (or Agarics), with a roughly circular cap and a stipe (stem) below. Then there are the brackets, typically growing out of trees, with an asymmetrical cap and the stipe on one side or no stipe at all. The third group are the earthballs and puffballs. The fourth group are the ‘resupinates’ – a fancy name for those that are flattened against a tree trunk or other surface. This section also includes some small growth forms without an obvious cap and stipe. The fifth and final group are the Slime Moulds or Myxomycetes, which are neither Fungi, Plants nor Animals, but from a quite distinct Kingdom of organisms. They spend most of their lives underground or in rotten wood and then, in moist conditions, they gather together and emerge to form slimy aggregations as their reproductive bodies.

The final column, headed VG, refers to which part of the wood in which that species was found. VG1 is the Village Green area designated in 2007 (south and east of the stream), and VG2 that part designated in 2013 (north and west of the stream).

Survey of Autumn 2012

	Scientific name	Common name	Comment	Location
The Agarics (‘Mushrooms and Toadstools’)
[i]	Agaricus silvaticus	Wood Mushroom	A good size, and good to eat	VG2
[i]	Armillaria gallica	Bulbous Honey Fungus	Bulbous stipe	VG1
[ i]	Armillaria sp	Honey Fungus	Black rhizoids in dead tree, but no fruit bodies seen so cannot name sp.	VG1
[i]	Calocybe constricta (aka Tricholom(ell)a leucocephalus)	none	Totally white agaric, fairly stout, with rooting base, often twisted, in soil. The twisted bit usually stays in the soil!	VG2
[i]	Chlorophyllum (aka Macrolepiota) rhacodes	Shaggy Parasol	Plain white stipe, but reddens if bruised, Parasol top.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Clitocybe fragrans	Fragrant Funnel	Pale washed out colours, gills very decurrent, slight fruity scent	VG2
[ i]	Clitocybe nebularis	Clouded Agaric		VG1, VG2
[ i]	Collybia (aka Gymnopus) dryophila	Russet Toughshank		VG1, VG2
[ i]	Collybia (aka Rhodocollybia) fusipes	Spindle Toughshank	Dark red-brown caps and very swollen fusiform stipes, tufted	VG1
[i]	Collybia (aka Rhodocollybia) butyracea	Butter Cap		VG2
[ i]	Coprinus atramentarius	Common Inkcap		VG2
[ i]	Crepidotus cesatii	none	Like C. variabilis but with spherical spores	VG2
[ i]	Hypholoma fasciculare	Sulphur Tuft		VG1
[i]	Inocybe geophylla	White Fibrecap	Elfin cap, pure white, with a tiny point at the tip. Spermatic smell. Very poisonous	VG1
[i]	Lactarius sp	A Milkcap	Too tiny to identify sp since no spores yet.	VG1
[ i]	Lactarius subdulcis	Mild Milkcap	In mosses, on S bank of stream	VG1
[i]	Lepiota pseudolilacea	none	Small agaric, with black-dotted cap	VG2
[ i]	Lepista flaccida (aka L. inversa)	Tawny Funnel	Spherical spores.	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Lepista nuda	Wood Blewit		VG1
[ i]	Macrolepiota procera	Parasol	‘Snake-skin’ mottles on stipe.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Mycena flavescens	none	Pale creamy cap, fantastic cystidia	VG2
[ i]	Mycena galericulata	Common Bonnet	Gills slightly pink with cross-gill ridges, and stipe can be twisted 360° and springs back when released.	VG2
[ i]	Mycena inclinata	Clustered Bonnet	On stumps, unpleasant rancid smell.	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Mycena pura	Lilac Bonnet	May be shades of purple-red, rosy pink, lilac, violet.  Smell of radish	VG1, VG2
[i]	Mycena vitilis	Snapping Bonnet	Audible snap. Grey cap and stipe.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Pleurotus cornucopiae	Branching Oyster	Layers of gilled shell-shaped fungus, pale cream, on dead or dying wood.	VG1
[i]	Pluteus cervinus	Deer Shield	Brown cap, on rotten wood	VG2
[i]	Pluteus salicinus	Willow Shield	Grey cap, on rotten wood	VG2
[i]	Psathyrella corrugis (aka P. gracilis)	Red-edge Brittlestem	Conical hygrophanous cap, thin brittle stipe, brown/black gills when mature. On old wood or leaf litter.	VG1
The Brackets
[i]	Inonotus hispidus	Shaggy Bracket	Large, usually on Ash, often high up	VG1
[ i]	Laetiporus sulphureus	Chicken of the Woods	One large yellow blobby bracket on one tree, and another seen later with bright orange top. Often on a living tree, but killing it.	VG1
[i]	Piptoporus betulinus	Birch Polypore		VG1
[i]	Polyporus durus	Bay Polypore	Bay or Chestnut brown	VG2
[ i]	Rigidoporus ulmarius	none	Large white bracket low down in a tree, with bright orange/red tubes.	VG1
[i]	Skeletocutis nivea	Hazel Bracket	Usually brown on top but always white below. Soft white bracket or knobbly growth on dead wood with tiny pores (hardly visible without a 10x lens) and very tiny spores.	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Stereum hirsutum	Common (or Hairy) Curtain Crust	Small thin brackets on dead wood, usually browns on top and light orange smooth surface below.	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Trametes gibbosa	Lumpy Bracket	On Birch, not its most common host. Quite large pores, large area of attachment to host wood.	VG1
The Puffballs and Earthballs
[ i]	Geastrum triplex	Collared Earthstar	Large, with pale colours.  The commonest of the Genus.	VG2
[ i]	Lycoperdon perlatum	Common Puffball		VG1, VG2
[ i]	Scleroderma citrinum	Common Earthball	Firm globular pale yellow-brown ‘skin’ is brown-blackish inside due to purple-black spores. On soil, under trees.	VG1
The Resupinates and other growth forms
[i]	Ascobolus lignatilis	none	Tiny yellow-brown cups on moist rotting wood.	VG1
[i]	Basidioradulum radula (aka Hyphoderma)	Toothed Crust	Resupinate, starts almost flat, creamy to ochre, soon with teeth up to 4mm high.	VG2
[ i]	Bulbillomyces farinosus	A slime mould	On underside of rotten wood partly in water, numerous white balls.	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Chlorociboria aeruginascens	Green Elfcup	Makes wood blue-green, green cups not often seen.	VG1
[i]	Clavulina coralloides (aka C. cristata)	Crested Coral	Tiny white branching thing on S bank of stream	VG1
[i]	Cylindrobasidium laeve (aka C. evolvens)	none	Resupinate, pale, white edges. Spores pointed pear-shape.	VG2
[ i]	Dacrymyces stillatus	Common Jellyspot	Tiny (2mm) but clumped, orange jelly blobs on very rotten wood	VG2
[ i]	Daldinia concentrica	Cramp Balls or King Alfred’s Cakes	Pyrenomycete, Asco. Brown to black almost globose hard fruit bodies, with concentric rings inside (annual rings), coke-like texture, only on dead Ash.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Diatrype stigma	Common Tarcrust	Pyrenomycete, Asco. A flat black crust with tiny papillae, mostly on Beech, Hawthorn and Cherry	VG2
[i]	Diatrypella favacea (aka D.verrucaeformis)	none	Pyrenomycete, Asco.  Black spots or‘pustules’ bursting through the bark, usually on dead twigs of Alder, Hazel or Beech.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Diatrypella quercina	none	Pyrenomycete, Asco. Black spots bursting through the bark, usually on Oak, also can be on Willows	VG2
[i]	Hypoxylon (aka Biscognauxia) nummularium	Beech Tarcrust	A black crust on dead Beech wood, with minute knobs, white inside.	VG1
[i]	Hypoxylon (aka Nemania) serpens	none	Thick black crust with rounded papillate surface on dead wood.	VG1
[i]	Lyomyces sambuci	Elder Whitewash	Resupinate of thin texture and a floury surface, very white.	VG2
[i]	Mollisia cinerea	Common Grey Disco	Tiny (<1mm), watery grey cups with paler margins, on dead wood. Asco	VG1, VG2
[i]	Orbilia xanthostigma	Common Glasscup	Tiny thin amber semi-transparent discs on rotten wood.	VG1
[i]	Peniphorella praetermissa (aka Hyphoderma)	none	Resupinate, white, with long narrow spores and two kinds of cystidia	VG2
[i]	Phellinus ferruginosus	Rusty Porecrust	Rusty brown, resupinate, tiny pores	VG2
[i]	Schizopora paradoxa	Split Porecrust	Pale to deep cream resupinate with very wiggly, jagged or irregular tubes/pores, on dead wood.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Xylaria hypoxylon	Candlesnuff Fungus	Tiny twig-like growths on old wood, with white tops, floury with white spores.	VG1
The Slime Moulds
[ i]	Trichia varia	A slime mould	Tiny white spheres on wood	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Stemonitis fuscus	(Brown rug, or Brown carpet)	A Myxomycete, up to 1cm tall, very common on dead logs or stumps.	VG1

Survey of Autumn 2013

	Scientific name	Common name	Comment	Location
The Agarics (‘Mushrooms and Toadstools’)
[i]	Agaricus impudicus		No common name, even though this species is quite common in broad-leaved woodland. The scaly cap is a good indicator	VG1
[ i]	Amanita citrina var alba	False Deathcap	White all over with scales on cap, smell of new potatoes	VG1
[ i]	Amanita citrina var citrina	False Deathcap	As above, but with yellow tones	VG1
[ i]	Amanita fulva	Tawny Grisette	Brown cap with white gills and stipe, with a big white bag below.	VG1
[i]	Amanita rubescens	The Blusher	Mainly white, with scales on cap and large ring, but bruising pink/red when handled or chewed.	VG1
[i]	Armillaria gallica	Bulbous Honey Fungus	Like the standard one, mellea , but with markedly bulbous base. Equally common, but slightly less damaging to trees	VG1
[ i]	Boletus badius	Xerocomus, Bay Bolete	Bay brown cap with dull ochre tubes which bruise dark blue	VG1
[ i]	Chlorophyllum rhacodes	Macrolepiota, Shaggy Parasol	Large fungus with white all over except for the shaggy brown scales on the top of the cap.	VG1
[i]	Clitocybe candicans		A small mushroom with a shiny white cap that looks like icing. White slightly decurrent gills below, and white stipe.	VG2
[i]	Clitocybe metachroa		Fawn or beige mushroom with a hint of grey all over, very much a funnel shape with a short stipe	VG2
[ i]	Clitocybe nebularis	Clouded Funnel	A stout, rather large mushroom with very firm flesh and a grey or brownish tinge on the cap, all the rest being white, usually in troops or fairy rings	VG2
[ i]	Clitocybe odora	Aniseed Funnel	Small funnel with blue-green cap and strong aniseed scent.	VG1
[i]	Coprinellus micaceus	Coprinus, Glistening Inkcap	Golden domed cap with tiny crystals on the top, usually tufted.	VG1
[ i]	Coprinus picaceus	Magpie Inkcap	Near bridle path access to A13	VG1
[i]	Crepidotus mollis	Peeling Oysterling	Tiny soft white squidgy cap with no stipe, pale brown gills below, on dead twigs.	VG1
[i]	Gymnopus butyracea	Collybia, Butter Cap	Greasy feel to its brown cap, white gills below and pale brown stipe.	VG1
[i]	Gymnopus dryophila	Collybia, Russet Toughshank	Russet cap with white gills and russet stipe	VG1
[i]	Gymnopus maculata	Collybia, Spotted Toughshank	All white, but as it ages, or gets bruised, it goes slowly pink then rusty colour.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Hebeloma crustuliniforme	Poison Pie	Cap often slightly slimy, pale tan/ochre, gills the colour of milky coffee and smell of radish	VG1
[ i]	Sulphur Tuft	Orange cap with yellow edges, young gills bright sulphur yellow but soon turning grey-green then black, yellow stipe, always tufted	VG1
[i]	Inocybe geophylla var lilacina	Lilac Fibrecap	Lilac cap with cigar-colour gills and a spermatic smell.	VG1
[i]	Inocybe geophylla	White Fibrecap	See above in VG1, but this has the usual white cap, not lilac	VG2
[ i]	Laccaria amethystina	Amethyst Deceiver	Deep violet all over, small but usually in troops	VG1
[i]	Laccaria laccata	The Deceiver	Usually orange or tan on cap, but pink gills widely spaced below, small but often in troops	VG1
[ i]	Lactarius blennius	Beech Milkcap	Grey cap with mottles in rings, dull cream gills, oozing milk when damaged. Often with Beech	VG1
[i]	Lactarius quietus	Oakbug Milkcap	Red-brown cap and stipe, gills paler, oozing milk when damaged. Smell described as Bed Bugs(!), or oily	VG1
[i]	Lepiota cristata	Stinking Dapperling	A small mushroom with pinkish-brown scales all over the cap making circular patterns, the rest all white. It has an unpleasant smell.	VG2
[ i]	Lepiota grangei		Small mushroom with dark green scales on conical cap and white gills below, but stipe red near base. New to me (Mary Smith), very uncommon.	VG1, VG2
[i]	Lepista flaccida	L. inversa, Tawny Funnel	Orange colour cap, gills paler and very decurrent, with short short stipe	VG1
[i]	Leucoagaricus serenus		Widely conical cap almost creamy-white but turning yellowish with age. Gills and stipe white but faint ring falls off soon. New to me.	VG1
[ i]	Macrolepiota procera	Parasol	Large mushroom, often dinner-plate size flat cap, with brown scales. Gills white, stipe pale but with large floppy ring and snake-skin type markings below ring.	VG1
[i]	Mycena arcangeliana	Angel's Bonnet	Pale olive green tinge to cap and stipe, gills paler, on dead wood	VG1
[ i]	Mycena galericulata	Common Bonnet	Conical light brown cap, gills white but with faint pink tinge and lots of low interconnecting pieces between them. On dead wood	VG1, VG2
[ i]	Mycena pura	Lilac Bonnet	Lovely mauve to pink flat cap, gills and stipe paler, smell of radish	VG1
[i]	Mycena smithiana		A tiny white Bonnet with few widely-spaced gills in troops on dead Oak leaves. Rather uncommon, or much overlooked, new to me	NW
[i]	Mycena vitilis	Snapping Bonnet	Grey-brown cap with long pale grey stipe, which snaps audibly. On dead wood	VG1
[ i]	Paxillus involutus	Brown Rollrim	Deep brown cap starts rounded then becomes flat and finally funnel shaped, with edge always hairy and rolled under. Brown gills, decurrent and brown stipe	VG1
[i]	Pluteus chrysophaeus	Yellow Shield	Not the rare leoninus ! Bright yellow-orange cap, pink gills below, on dead wood	NW
[i]	Psathyrella conopilus	Conical Brittlestem	Dark brown bell-shaped cap with almost black gills below, and a paler brown stipe. Not unlike P . corrugis in VG1, but larger.	VG2
[i]	Psathyrella corrugis	P. gracilis, Red Edge Brittlestem	Conical or bell-shaped cap, all over deep brown, gills with narrow red edge (lens), a slender, delicate mushroom.	VG1
[ i]	Rhodotus palmatus	The Peach	Rubbery pink mushroom only on dead Elm	VG1
[ i]	Russula atropurpurea	Purple Brittlegill	Deep red-purple cap, whitish gills and stipe, usually with Oak	VG1
[ i]	Russula cyanoxantha	Charcoal Burner	Cap can be almost any colour, but usually light purple with tinges of green, pure white gills and stipe. Often with Oak	VG1
[ i]	Russula nigricans	Blackening Brittlegill	Large mushroom whitish all over but soon turning red then quickly black s it ages or when bruised. Gills are very widely spaced. Usually with Beech or Oak	VG1
[ i]	Russula ochroleuca	Ochre Brittlegill	Ochre cap with almost white gills and stipe; grows with any tree.	VG1
[ i]	Tricholoma sulphureum	Sulphur Knight	Bright sulphur-yellow all over, with terrible smell like coal gas or tar. Often with Oak	VG1
[ i]	Xerula radicata	Rooting Shank	A pale ochre-brown cap, often slightly wrinkled, and a l-o-n-g white stipe going into the soil.	NW
The Brackets
[i]	Auricularia auriculo-judea	Jelly Ear	Brown rubbery growths somewhat ear-shaped or cup-shaped it troops on dead Elder	NW
[i]	Bjerkandera adusta	Smoky Bracket	Various brownish tones on top, but with a white edge, which is continued below, but most of the pore area is a mid grey. Usually, but by no means always, on dead Beech	VG2
[i]	Calocera cornea	Small Stagshorn	Small yellow teeth on dead wood, often in lines where the twig is rotting	NW
[ i]	Daldinia concentrica	Cramp Balls / King Alfred’s Cakes	Asco, with black coke-like blobs on dead Ash wood	VG1
[i]	Polyporus squamosus	Dryad’s Saddle	A fairly large Polypore type of bracket, usually saddle-shaped, with a yellow-brown cap, spotted with brown scales, paler tube layer below and short stipe. Grows where the tree has been wounded.	NW
[i]	Postia caesia	Conifer Blueing Bracket	Small white bracket with small pores, blue on top but usually white below, on dead conifer wood only	VG1
[i]	Postia subcaesia	Blueing Bracket	Small white bracket with small pores on a variety of hardwoods, often no blueing seen.	VG1
[i]	Stereum gausapatum	Bleeding Oak Crust	Crusty frilly bracket on dead Oak wood, mainly golden-brown, which 'bleeds' when cut eg with a fingernail	VG1
[ i]	Stereum hirsutum	Hairy Curtain Crust	Crusty frilly bracket on dead wood, mainly dull brown and hairy on top but orange fertile surface beneath	VG1
[i]	Trametes versicolor	Coriolus, Turkeytail	Crusty bracket on dead wood with multi-zoned cap of varying colours, and white pores below	VG1, VG2
The Puffballs and Earthballs
[ i]	Lycoperdon perlatum	Common Puffball	A sphere on a fat stalk with tiny soft 'spines' all over, largest on the top. All white until mature, when it becomes brown inside with spores. Often in troops.	VG2
[i]	Scleroderma bovista	Potato Earthball	Like other Earthballs in having a scaly skin over a small ball, with loads of spores inside. Here the scales are very tiny, and the clean skin is much more obvious, looking rather like a potato.	NW
[ i]	Scleroderma verrucosum	Scaly Earthball	Round brown lump with scaly skin and thin wall surrounding the mass of dark spores, and a big 'root' below.	VG1
[i]	Basidioradulum radula	Hyphoderma	A crust rather like Radulomyces molaris, but a paler brown-beige, and with fewer, blunter, obvious teeth.	VG2, NW
[i]	Bisporella citrina	Lemon Disco	Asco. Tiny bright lemon yellow spots on dead wood	VG1
[i]	Ceriporia reticulata		A thin soft crust on dead wood, the crust having tiny pores looking like a network (lens), with no flesh behind it. New to me	VG1
[i]	Clavulina cinerea	Grey Coral	Tufted fruit-body looking like small Coral, light grey all over	VG1
[i]	Clavulina coralloides	C. cristata, Crested Coral	As above, but almost white, with fringed tips to the branches	VG1
[i]	Dacrymyces stillatus	Common Jellyspot	Dull yellow jelly spots on dead wood	VG1
[i]	Diatrype stigma	Common Tarcrust	Asco, black crust with tiny pinpoint bumps, on dead wood	VG1
[i]	Exidia thuretiana	White Brain	Translucent whitish jelly blobs, often crowded together, on dead sticks	VG2
[i]	Hyphodontia sambuci	Lyomyces, Elder Whitewash	Looks like white matt paint on a twig, usually, but not always, on Elder.	VG1
[i]	Hypocrea argillacea		Asco. Blobs of yellow jelly with distinct deeper yellow bits inside, more or less regularly arranged equidistant over the surface. New to me	NW
[i]	Hypomyces chrysospermus	Bolete Eater	Asco, like a mould, starts white but goes bright yellow, on old Boletes, completely covering them.	VG1
[i]	Lasiosphaeria ovinus		Asco, tiny (0.5mm) white woolly balls on dead wood	VG1
[i]	Mycoacia uda		Cream to yellow crust on wood, fertile surface with teeth (hand lens) closely spaced all over.	VG1
[i]	Nectria cinnabarina	Coral Spot	Asco, bright pink blobs on dead twigs, very common	VG1
[i]	Nectria episphaeria		Asco, scattered tiny red blobs on Tarcrusts such as Diatrype stigma	VG1
[ i]	Otidea alutacea	Tan Ear	Asco, golden soft 'ears' or shell-like shapes, often clustered, on soil	VG1
[ i]	Phleogena faginea	Curry Fungus	Tiny white blobs on bark of Oak, strong smell of curry, very uncommon, more usually on Beech	VG2
[i]	Radulomyces molaris		Rusty brown crust with conspicuous teeth, very irregular, on dead wood, usually Oak.	VG1
[i]	Schizopora paradoxa	Split Porecrust	A crust on dead wood which starts white then goes creamy-yellow as it ages. Pores all over surface usually have jagged or split edges	VG1
[ i]	Xylaria hypoxylon	Candlesnuff Fungus	Asco, tiny 'twigs' on dead wood, black at base and white powder (spores) covering the upper part.	VG1
The Slime Moulds
[ i]	Fuligo septica	Flowers of Tan	Myxomycete. Bright yellow low heap of powder growing on dead wood	VG2

Other records of Fungi

There has not been any systematic fungus survey of Coombe Wood before the autumn of 2012. The following list is mostly based on the casual observation of John Rostron.

Agarics (Mushrooms and Toadfstools)

• [The Clouded Agaric is probably the commonest large fungus, and is found throughout the wood, often as rings. i] Clouded Agaric, (Clitocybe nebulosa),
• [The Common Funnel-Cap is smaller than the Clouded Agaric, and has a light tan appearance. It occurs scattered throughout the wood. i] Common Funnel-Cap (Clitocybe infundibliformis),
• [i] Deceiver (Laccaria laccaria),
• [This image is rather over-exposed, and the violet colouration of this toadstool is washed out. It is quite common in the northern plateau. Despite the virulent colour, it is quite edible. i] Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina),
• [This poisonous toadstool also occurs mainly in the plateau area. i] Brown Rollrim (Paxillus involutus),
• [The Yellow-stainer is sometimes the second most common large fungus. It mainly occurs in the south of the wood around Coombe Kop. i] Yellow-staining Mushroom (Agaricus xanthodermus),
• [The Beechwood Sickener’s virulent colouration warns of its poisonous properties. It occurs in the Hornbeam coppice between the main stream and the pond. i] Beechwood Sickener (Russula mairei),
• [The Charcoal Burner occurs in the Hornbeam coppice between the main stream and the pond. i] Charcoal Burner (Russula cyanoxantha),
• [The Common Yellow Russula is a medium-small mushroom fairly common in the Hornbeam coppice. i] Common Yellow Russula (Russula ochroleuca),
• [We think that this is a Blusher but are not certain. It could be one ofthe other species of Amantia. The photo was taken at the end of June 2012.i] Blusher (possibly) (Amantia rubescens),
• [The Parasol can grow up to 20cm tall (about eight inches) with a cap 10cm across. It occurs around the main Coombewood Ride (between Coombewood Drive and the London Road). i] Parasol Mushroom (Lepiota procera),
• [Wood Blewits is a medium-sized mushroom fairly common between the London Road and the stream from the pond. i] Wood Blewits (Lepista nuda),
• [Velvet Shank is unusual in that it can occur throughout the autumn, winter and into the spring. This photo was taken by Richard Russell on December 19^th 2009.i] Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes),
• [This was growing on a fallen log near the pond in October 2013.i] Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella_mucida),
• [
  i] False Death Cap (Amantia citrina),
• [
  This had sulphur-yellow cap, gills and stipe.i] Sulphur Knight (Tricholoma sulphureum).

Bracket Fungi

• [Birch Bracket Fungus grows on dead and dying birch trees throughout the wood. i] Birch Bracket Fungus (Pitopterus betulinus),
• [The Oyster Mushroom grows on decaying wood. The ones in this image are growing on a fallen log.i] Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus),

Other Fungi

• [Lycoperdon excipuliforme is mainly found near the stream. i] Lycoperdon excipuliforme, a stalked puffball,
• [King Alfred’s Cakes grow on fallen timber scattered throughout the wood and look like blackened golf balls. i] King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldina concentrica),
• [Candlesnuff Fungus grows on mossy, fallen timber scattered throughout the wood and resembles a burnt-out, ashen candle wick. i] Candlesnuff Fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon).

Slime-Fungi

• [This one was near the main stream in February. i] Slime-Fungus, possibly Mucilago crustacea.
• [This one was near the pond in June. This slime-mould is also known as “Flowers of Tan” or “Dog’s Vomit”! i] Slime-Fungus, Fuligo septica.
• [Taken in October 2013. i] Slime-Fungus, Lycogala terrestre.