Village Hunt

    It's been a busy week work wise but I have managed to continue my morning cycle trips and it was on one of these excursions that I decided to stop and search a small grassed area in Outwell. The narrow piece of land splits two main rounds that run through the village and has a good scattering of both young and mature trees from oaks to walnuts and birch, always a good place to look for fungi.

   After only a few minutes I came across a nice village of Fairy Inkcaps, these little fungi always remind me of fairy homes that you would see on tv as a kid. There were some very young samples and others that were fully matured as seen in the picture below.



    These were followed by a group of Glistening Inkcaps, one of the mose common fungi here in Upwell and Outwell.


   The next find was a bit of a mystery and tho I think I found it when reserching online and in books I'm not 100% sure I have it correct.  I'm sure it is a young Alder Goblet. At first I thought it was a Glazed Cup but they have thick septate hairs on the outer wall, and there was none showing on the specimen that I found. So I'm going with the young Alder Goblet, another first for me. This years fungi season seems to be starting slow for me but it's throwing up some nice new finds for me. Fingers crossed there are many more to come.




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