Fungi foray

Lucky with the weather today as there was a heavy shower between getting up and leaving the house, and then more rain mid afternoon after I had finished a spot of gardening.

In the morning there were 20 of us being led around Bush Wood, Wanstead. We met at the Quaker Meeting House, which is a 40 minute walk from home for me. We found such a lot of fungi we didn't get as far as we might have done. I found white jelly fungus, dead man's fingers and candle snuffer fungus (all names from my memory so might not be completely accurate).

These were, from memory again, cluster fairy bonnet.

I was also hoping to upload a picture of a giant polypore, but the computer won't co-operate!

Our guide had some laminated identification sheets where one follows a route answering questions to end up, hopefully, with the right identification. I hope to get one of these - nice and light to carry when out on an autumn walk.