Showing posts with label fungi walk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fungi walk. Show all posts

Sunday, October 20, 2013

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.