Ms Fungi

I feel like it’s definitely ‘Happy New #fungi Year’ to me today ☺️ Found this fabulous stick covered in Terana caerulea aka Cobalt Crust 🥰 The colour was so vibrant, but I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t rolled the stick over 😳

@Titanites Oh, we will miss your amazing knowledge on the annual mine tours ☹️ Good luck in your new adventures 😃 Keep me posted if you see any fungi 🍄

My last full week working at Albion Stone has now passed. I could not have hoped for a better group of people to be working with and I will miss everyone in the mining team very much. Thanks to one and all for your unfaltering assistance over the last twenty years.

Fingers crossed this beauty survives on #HumberheadLevels 🤞 Possibly Morchella elata but would need microscopical 🔬 examination or these days eDNA to be certain 🤔🙃#Mycology #Fungi

Delighted to find this scarce Midnight Disco (Pachyella violaceonigra) fungus growing directly out of the #tufa on the west fen this week! Likely grew from spores drifting over from the other side of the Valley... #FungiFriday #OxfordshireFens #NotThePrettiestFungus

Bright orange lichens can use their pigments as a ‘sunscreen’ eurekalert.org/news-releases/… via @EurekAlert @imperialspark

W really wish our Elves would clear up after themselves when they've finished drinking the morning dew. We found loads of their Scarlet Elf Cups (Sarcoscypha austriaca) just left on this old log in the fen this morning! #Fungi #OxfordshireFens #Myths #WildOxford #OX3

Managed around 50 of these little beauties by rummaging around in carr woodland #HumberheadLevels Most seem attached to willow spp of timber 🍄 Vernacular name, Scarlet Elf Cup quite imaginative #Fungi #Ascomycete #Mycology

@Titanites 😂 mad!

@MsFungi Stone dust, in the pitch dark.

Spotted today in a dark and quiet area of Jordans Mine. I wonder what they are? ⁦@MsFungi⁩

@Titanites Well, I must admit I was thinking the same 😂 What are they growing on?

@MsFungi Thank you. I'd be amazed if there was any organic material in the substrate, just calcareous dust. Very interesting.

@glynpierson @FantasticFungi @NearbyWild @ElyPhotographic @Britnatureguide @NatureUK @BritishFungi Very nice 😃

We found this Poplar Bracket (Oxyporus populinus) a couple of days ago. A new record for the Lye Valley! 😀 #FungiFriday #BiologicalRecording #EveryRecordCounts

A type of coral fungus growing up through frosted leaves under a beech tree in #Fineshade Wood today. Can anyone help ID to species from this photo please? @Myco_Mania @MsFungi @ukfungusday

@ABRACKENBURY @OAPonaBrompton @GardenNewsmag Some wonderful species - all it needs is folk prepared to look! Indispensable recyclers #fungi need to be better understood & appreciated🙂 The Geopora arenicola possibly a new record for #HumberheadLevels & Neotiella rutilans, both found on sandy substrate.

Still a few #fungi to be found on @LincsWildlife Epworth Turbary reserve Macrolepiota procera (Parasol), Hypholoma fasciculare (Sulphur Tuft) & Coprinellus micaeus (Glistening Inkcap)🍄 #HumberheadLevels

Isn’t #nature inventive and amazing ❤️

@melonforecstasy 🤣 It was!

@MsFungi Wow... That is one big turkey 🦃!

What a fantastic display of Trametes versicolor aka Turkey Tail #FungiFriday #fungi 😍

Feral #honeybees still surviving inside this fallen tree 😃🐝 They are managing to forage as some had full pollen baskets as you can see 👀 #nature #wildlife #bees Amazing ❤️

Lovely weather looking for fungi with John Haughton in #Fineshade today. At least one new record for the wood: Slender Club (slender, yes.. but club??) @_Northants_BRC @MsFungi @MycoFun @Myco_Mania