The Ballerina

    Now I'm going to be really honest here. On Monday morning I decided to call at the village playing field while on my cycle as it had been nearly a week since I last gave it a search. And I found my best ever find so far in the short time I've been addicted to kingdom fungi.

   After spotting some old Chicken of the woods on a cherry tree and a nice group of Field Mushrooms I headed for my favourite end. It's an area that last autumn produced a number of different fungi including Milkcaps and some beautiful White saddle fungi. As I reached that end of the playing field I started spotting small fungi then a wonderful big Blusher, which was a bonus.


     Then I saw what looked more like a flower standing in a small group, it was a mushroom but one with amazing shape and a slightly pink shade. After taking pictures I headed off home to do some research and with the help of the kind guys in the UK fungi facebook group was amazed to discover it was a Pink or Ballerina Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis).


    These beautiful Waxcaps grow on mown grassland like this playing field and are not common so to say I'm please is an understatement, beginners luck some would say. All I know is I feel so happy I got to find a group of these wonderful mushrooms.


    I retuned this morning to take more pictures only to discover the playing field had been mown, so fingers crossed more may appear in the next week. If they don't then at least I got to see them and have these pictures to remember it.



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