{"id":14032,"date":"2025-12-30T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14032"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:25:04","slug":"fungi-along-baildon-bank-walker-wood-midgeley-wood-29-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/fungi-along-baildon-bank-walker-wood-midgeley-wood-29-dec\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungi Along Baildon Bank, Walker Wood & Midgeley Wood. 29 Dec."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Monday afternoon I went for a walk along Baildon Bank, behind Baildon Green into Midgeley Wood and Walker Wood looking for fungi with my camera and ring-flash. Then, from near the bottom station of Shipley Glen Tramway, I walked back along Thompson Lane, Green Road and Cliffe Avenue because by then it was dark and walking back through the woods would be tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The header images is of a tiny fungus. I did try picking one of them to look at a bit closer but they were in a slight recess and very small – about 2mm across at a guess. I did get one on my finger tip but it blew away before I could get my magnifying glass out. I have labelled them as possibly Oak Pin fungus, Cudoniella acicularis, which is small, white, pin shaped and is around in Winter. But there are probably thousands of others that fit that description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this walk through the woods there were fewer mushroom style fungi than on other walks. The small bracket\/crust fungi were quite abundant. Everything seemed to be attached to wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the edge of the road to B H Woodworking Baildon Green I did spot a bright orange cluster of what I think were Velvet Shank, Flammulina velutipes. The caps were slimy and the stems quite tough though squashable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Glistening Inkcap clusters had a few that were turning<\/em>. In fact I was surprised to see them this late in the year. Please let me know if this means they are something different. Earlier in the year I saw lots around though it is possible that they have a long season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several of the fallen trees had some of the bark stripped off which exposed the thick dark strands of the Rhizomorphs. I knew that the Honey Fungus group, Armillaria<\/em>, had dark bootstring<\/em> Rhizomorphs but after a bit more reading it looks like this type of Rhizomorph is definitely that of Honey Fungus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the fallen trees still had Oyster mushrooms growing on it. They looked older than when I last saw them on the tree and some of the clusters had pretty much rotted away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did find a tree stump that was covered in moss where the shreds of several puffballs could be seen. One of them, that had been a bit protected by another branch, was still a ball and prodding it caused a cloud of spores to shoot out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The squiggles show where I wandered taking most of the photos. When I took the first 4 photos I had not yet turned on my Tracks app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n