We walk this section of the path that runs between Dunrobin Castle and the sea perhaps three times a week and, while it has plenty of dead wood along it, we've not found much in the way of fungi - until today, when....
....some rotting leaves - at top right and bottom left of this picture - suddenly transformed themselves into....
....fungi. The first ones we spotted were grey and weirdly shaped, some of them a bit like....
....filo pastry parcels which had gone well past their best-before date....
....but as we looked further we realised that the grey ones were the older ones and there were some which were pinky-brown and evidently 'fresher'.
Looked at against the light these ones were so like an ear - and they had the same sort of jelly-like consistency as a human ear - that I hardly needed to look them up on the internet - they're the jelly ear fungus
Auricularia auricula-judae.
We walk this section of the path that runs between Dunrobin Castle and the sea perhaps three times a week and, while it has plenty of dead wood along it, we've not found much in the way of fungi - until today, when....
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