This may look as if someone's shopping bag has burst scattering rooster potatoes across the grass but it's a fungus which, judging by how many of them there are on the open, grassy links at Littleferry, is doing very well. However, as I mentioned in an earlier post, identifying it is a bit of a headache as....
....it ticks all the boxes for a wood blewit except, as the name suggests, wood blewits are most common on leaf litter in.... woods. A similar fungus, the bruising webcap, also ticks the boxes but... yes.... it too is most common in woodland.
Nothing is easy in the world of fungus identification. When I took the picture of these beautiful brackets - each is about 4" across - I thought the species would be easy to identify. It wasn't, and I'm still not sure whether this is, or is not a conifer mazegill.
This hardwood tree was felled some time ago - it's about 3' in diameter - giving it time to grow two rather smart....
....jellies. The dark one in the foreground may (or, of course, may not....) be black witch's butter and the lilac one may be purple jellydisc. Whatever, they are rather beautiful, and it seems a shame that, although they are on a well-used path in Golspie Glen, I doubt whether many people notice them.
This may look as if someone's shopping bag has burst scattering rooster potatoes across the grass but it's a fungus which, judging by how many of them there are on the open, grassy links at Littleferry, is doing very well. However, as I mentioned in an earlier post, identifying it is a bit of a headache as....
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