We walked in the pine plantation along the banks of Loch Fleet yesterday looking for fungi and were not disappointed in their numbers - so this might be a good year for them. However....
....both there are elsewhere they've been variously rotted, broken, chewed up and degraded. Some of the damage looks like the work of slugs and snails but much of it isn't. So even....
....the best specimens are rarely perfect.
I still don't want to try to identify them but can't help it. Some I'm reasonably sure of - like, this is a brittlegill - but others defeat me, like...
....these, relatively undamaged, beauties. We've found them in the same woods before, just in one place, and couldn't identify them then.
This was about the most undamaged one we found, its colour even more rich chestnut than seen in the picture. The underside of the cap and the stalk are the same colour, so it should be easy to identify.
This may be meadow coral fungus. It's very similar to yellow stag horn but it caught my attention because, unlike the others, it was found out in the open grassland of the links.
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