Growing with Grimmia pulvinata on a bridge. There was an abundance of lichens here!

Smaller fruiting body.

Eight large spores in a row.

Hydrated fungus and moss under the microscope.

The only fungus I saw the other day during some pretty cold temperatures! 🥶. Identified as an Octospora, probably O. musci-muralis growing with its host the common cushion-forming moss Grimmia pulvinata. 🍄‍🟫 🌿

A christmas card illustrated with a toad sitting on a toadstool. The text is: A Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas!

Waxcap 42 - Date Waxcap (Hygrocybe spadicea). A very shy fruiting species so not often encountered and also restricted to the better sites. Stipe is yellow with brown fibrils, gills generally yellow but can be orange. The brown conical cap is incredibly distinctive!

Waxcap 43 - Dune Waxcap (Hygrocybe conicoides). Although not useful for CHEGD grassland assessments, good to know this species exists. Red conical cap that blackens only slightly, generally at the tip. Grows in coastal sand dunes with acuticonica and members of the conica agg.

A red mushroom in grass with long fingers. This one is still joined at the top and filled with a black goo to attract insects. Stinks like carrion.

Devil's Fingers (Clathrus archeri).

The black bits suggest Blackening Waxcap (Hygrocybe conica) to me! Confusingly red at first...

A glistening, grey mushroom in grass. Slimy and sticky due to a glutinous covering.

Slimy Waxcap (Gliophorus irrigatus).

New waxcap just dropped: Gliophorus alboviscidus D.J. Harries & G.W. Griff.,
Diagnosis: Basidiomata resembling Gliophorus irrigatus but lacking grey or brownish colours. ITS 362
sequences strongly divergent (9.7%) #FungiFriends www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Waxcap 30 - Butterscotch Waxcap (Gliophorus europerplexus) 😍 Previously in the perplexus agg. A browny beige species. Chunkier and less viscid than sciophanus. Different colours to Parrot or Jubilee. Incredibly rare.

Red, slimy mushrooms in green grass. Visible striations on the cap edge.

Sunset Waxcap (Gliophorus sciophanus).

Waxcap 35 - Slender Waxcap (Cuphophyllus radiatus). Similar to Yellowfoot but no yellowing to the more slender stipe and stronger striations in the cap. Quite small and hard to spot.

Wow, wow, wow: Mycena pseudocorticola and, finally, Mycena meliigena, occurring together on moss-covered oak branches in quantity (this is just a small section). A friend spent years looking for M. meliigina every time she came across M. pseudocorticola! [Rushmere CP, Bucks]

A collection of white mushrooms from grass. The centre of the cap is ever so slightly darker. The gills run down the stipe.

Snowy Waxcap (Cuphophyllus virgineus).

Waxcap 33 - Nitrous Waxcap (Neohygrocybe nitrata). The name comes from the smell, very strong of swimming pool chlorine. Cap colour varies from grey to nearly black and overall size is also really variable. The stipe is generally a bit chunky. An uncommon species.

Potentially! Will look into it

Hygrocybe punicea seen in south Wales #FungiFriends #ukwildlife

Long whitish-yellow club fungi sticking out of moss and lichen on a moor. The largest ones have broad ends like tongues.

Moor Club (Clavaria argillacea).

The gills didn't fit for splendidissima so I am puzzled

It had not rained for a while in the area and the grass was quite dry.

They did look strange actually; a lot of them were a lot more orange than expected. I just interpreted it as variation within the H. coccinea group. Do you have any suggestions?

A group of bright red mushrooms with orange and yellow sections. They are quite large, with a greasy cap, and stand out against the brown and green grass.

Scarlet Waxcap (Hygrocybe coccinea).

Yellow mushrooms with patches of orange, pink, green, blue and purple. Glutinous and shiny, found in grass.

Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus).

A pair of Meadow Waxcaps in grass. The caps are orange-brown and the stipes are creamy white.

Meadow Waxcap (Cuphophyllus pratensis).

Cuphophyllus fornicatus

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A stout, white and grey mushroom growing on grass. The grey cap has lilac tones.

Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus).

3/11/25 Cumbria - I've historically disregarded the excitement associated with descriptions of white forms of Ballerina #Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis f. nivalis) because they often fade with time

Well that all changed today, this pair of fresh examples almost completely lacking color

An orangey-browny, slimy, shiny cluster of the Heath Waxcap from acidic soil.

Heath Waxcap (Gliophorus laetus).

Waxcap 20 - Jubilee Waxcap (Gliophorus reginae). One of our rarest species and an absolute stunner 😍 Only named in 2012 and from a British specimen, the name comes from it then being the Jubilee. Colours differ from Parrot and gill attachment from Heath. Only in our best unimproved grasslands.

A tiny blue mushroom, smaller than a peanut, poking out of moss on tree bark.

Steely Bonnet (Mycena pseudocorticola).

A slender and delicate mushroom decomposing dead organic matter. It has a brown cap with white velum spots on, resembling a magpie.

Magpie Inkcap (Coprinopsis picacea).