Spring isn’t the obvious time for searching for fungi but I gave it a try today. My first significant find was a white growth on the side of a silver birch stump in Seckar Wood. It looked like a blob of foam that was creeping down the stump and it felt soft, similar to a marshmallow.
False puffball (Enteridium lycoperdon)
Again, some knowledgeable members of the British Mycological Society Facebook Group helped me out. They tell me that it is a slime mould and is probably Enteridium lycoperdon. This species is also known as the false puffball but I should say that slime moulds aren’t classed as fungi.
In the woods over at Newmillerdam, I found an attractive group of orange-brown fungi.
Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes)
I think this is an old clump of velvet shank. This is a species that normally appears late in the year and can be seen from late autumn through to spring.