{"id":2979,"date":"2017-04-02T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2017-04-02T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T16:16:30","slug":"spring-fungus-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Spring Fungus Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring isn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2980\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2980\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2980\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slime-mould-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slime-mould-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slime-mould-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Slime-mould-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">False puffball (Enteridium lycoperdon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;t classed as fungi.<\/p>\n<p>In the woods over at Newmillerdam, I found an attractive group of orange-brown fungi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2981\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2981\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2981\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flammulina-velutipes-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flammulina-velutipes-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flammulina-velutipes-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flammulina-velutipes-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring isn&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[293,321,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}