Fabulous Fungi.
13th November 2022
Susan and I were out walking on Friday in an area of unimproved grassland looking for Waxcaps. It’s the time of year that they can appear in numbers in this type of environment and they didn’t disappoint because one particular area of about two hundred yards square was absolutely littered with these colourful mushrooms.
Varieties included;
Snowy
Golden
Parrot
Meadow
Scarlet
All in some numbers - a sight to behold.
There was also a huge amount of Witches Butter fungi.
Literally hundreds of examples all over the Gorse wood.
However, just before we were about to call it a day we decided to just examine one more area and I’m so glad we did because as we walked through, seeing all of the above mushrooms, which was lovely, I looked behind some bracken and there on its own was a beautiful and very rare.
Pink Waxcap.
What a find! We were stunned by this glorious specimen. This mushroom is also called ‘The Ballerina’ because of its shape, it’s so beautiful and delicate and I couldn’t wait to take a photograph. After this nothing else mattered but unbelievably we found another three, it was beyond our wildest expectations.
Walking on, half stunned by these finds, I stopped in my tracks and right in front of me was a Violet Coral fungus.
Remarkable resemblence to Coral.
We were totally in awe now, this is one of the rarest grassland fungi in the UK, it’s very uncommon indeed, (if it was a bird it would be a mega), but there it was and with incredulity I could see more, in total twelve, this was now the other side of ridiculous. I took more images of this probably once in a lifetime experience, what a day, which started out as a casual walk and ended up finding two superb fungi – you just never know and that’s what makes it all worthwhile!!
Varieties included;
Snowy
Golden
Parrot
Meadow
Scarlet
All in some numbers - a sight to behold.
There was also a huge amount of Witches Butter fungi.
Literally hundreds of examples all over the Gorse wood.
However, just before we were about to call it a day we decided to just examine one more area and I’m so glad we did because as we walked through, seeing all of the above mushrooms, which was lovely, I looked behind some bracken and there on its own was a beautiful and very rare.
Pink Waxcap.
What a find! We were stunned by this glorious specimen. This mushroom is also called ‘The Ballerina’ because of its shape, it’s so beautiful and delicate and I couldn’t wait to take a photograph. After this nothing else mattered but unbelievably we found another three, it was beyond our wildest expectations.
Walking on, half stunned by these finds, I stopped in my tracks and right in front of me was a Violet Coral fungus.
Remarkable resemblence to Coral.
We were totally in awe now, this is one of the rarest grassland fungi in the UK, it’s very uncommon indeed, (if it was a bird it would be a mega), but there it was and with incredulity I could see more, in total twelve, this was now the other side of ridiculous. I took more images of this probably once in a lifetime experience, what a day, which started out as a casual walk and ended up finding two superb fungi – you just never know and that’s what makes it all worthwhile!!