Another wander through Shipley Glen with my macro lens. The same fungi were found in different places in the Glen, their appearance can vary quite a bit so I hope I am somewhere near with IDs. This time I have tried to group them by type and not chronologically.
The header image is of a Birch Polypore which is suitably named, it is exclusive to Birch trees, often growing on dying or dead Birch, and plenty of them were around. This one looks as though it is next to a Woodpecker nest hole.
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Hoof Fungus
Apart from the Olive Oyster and Witch’s Butter, see below, the fungi that I saw were all Bracket Fungi, and there were a lot.
There were several fallen trees with clusters of small orange bracket fungi but I was too interested in the larger ones to take any photos of them.
Quite a few trees had Hoof Fungus, Fomes fomentarius, growing out of them ranging from new to several years old. In one place several large old ones had been broken off. They felt as hard as the wood that they had been growing on.
The photo taken through the mirror, of the underside of one of them, is a bit fuzzy but you can see the pores.
Turkeytail
I have grouped all these together as Turkeytail even though I am not at all confident about that. I should have made a better note of what the underside looked like. They all had pores so were not False Turkeytail, Stereum ostrea. A closer look at the colour of the underside of some of them would let me more confidently rule out Smoky Bracket, Bjerkandera adusta.
Blushing Bracket
To me one of the Hoof Fungus looked very similar to this Blushing Bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa, but the underside is very different. The pores on this one are slits making it look like a maze.
Not so many
These are the ones that I didn’t see so many of.
Down in the bottom of Shipley Glen, right next to Loadpit Beck, I spotted two plucking posts where a Sparrowhawk (probably) had plucked one or more Wood Pigeons (probably).
I only spotted one cluster of what I think were Olive Oysterling mushrooms, Sarcomyxa serotina. And only one fallen tree with what I think was Witch’s Butter, Exidia glandulosa.
Yay! I have had some feedback. The suggestion is that the Olive Oysterling is actually Oyster mushrooms that have gone over. This makes sense because Oyster is much more common than Olive Oysterling. I have also had the suggestion that the Witch’s Butter is actually Warlock’s Butter, Exidia plana or Exidia nigricans as it is now known.
Different Lichens and Mosses have differing tolerance of pollution so the varieties found in an area can give an indication of how polluted the air is. The variety and abundance of them in Shipley Glen suggests to me that the air is clean. However there is an Orange Lichen that is quite tolerant of air pollution.
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