It was noticeable on our walk on Lttleferry links yesterday that fungi species were beginning to appear in larger numbers than we've seen over the past few months. The largest numbers were in this small area of short grass and wildflowers where....
....some of them made pretty groupings.
I have largely given up trying to identify fungi, there being something like 15,000 species in Britain, and confine myself to enjoying finding increasingly exotic varieties.
Some I do know. This is blackening waxcap which is fun as it starts in yellows and oranges and works its way through reds and browns until it finally reaches the colour after which it is named: black. It's a fungus which we particularly associate with these links as they were 'flowering' in unusually large numbers the first time we visited Littleferry, some six years ago.
This fungus, about the size of a tennis ball, is a puffball. In one particular area of the links, about 20m x 20m, several of these are 'growing', and we find them in the same place every year. However, yesterday they were joined by....
....this fungus, slightly larger than the white one, which so closely resembled a bread roll that, for a moment, I almost picked it up. It was so unusual that, on returning home - foolishly - I tried to identify it. After twenty minutes of hunting through books and the internet I was no further forward so gave it my own name, the bread roll fungus.
Since fungi are often given simple names which describe their appearance, I may well find that this really is its name.
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