{"id":3241,"date":"2017-08-13T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2017-08-13T20:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:02:53","slug":"fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3241","title":{"rendered":"Fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The start to the fungus season has been a good one. Many fungi are emerging in lots of locations.<\/p>\n

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Blusher (Amanita rubescens)<\/p><\/div>\n

Colin Booker and I took a walk at Walton Colliery Country Park and started finding many fungi as soon as we set out. Amongst lots of earthballs beneath some birches, we found a number of blushers.<\/p>\n

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Russulas<\/p><\/div>\n

There were also\u00a0dozens of Russulas beneath trees. They are difficult to identify but I think the commonest, shown on the left of this image, was the grass-green Russula (R aeruginea). The yellow one was probably the ochre brittlegill (R ochroleuca). The red one defied my attempts to identify it.<\/p>\n

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Woolly Milkcap (Lactarius torminosus)<\/p><\/div>\n

We located a single woolly milkcap and a couple of boletes.<\/p>\n

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Orange Birch Bolete (Leccinum versipelle)<\/p><\/div>\n

This single orange birch bolete (Leccinum versipelles)\u00a0was growing beneath silver birches, as would be expected.<\/p>\n

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Peppery Bolete (Chalciporus piperatus)<\/p><\/div>\n

We also found this peppery bolete (Chalciporus piperatus), with it’s quite distinctive shiny cap. It gets its name because of its peppery taste. Having said this, never eat any fungus as a result of any identification that I make on this site, or any other!<\/p>\n

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Hypomyces chrysospermus<\/p><\/div>\n

A day or two later, this evening, I was walking at Ackworth when I spotted a vivid yellow in the grass. I found that this was covering what looked like a dehydrated mushroom.<\/p>\n

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Hypomyces chrysospermus<\/p><\/div>\n

Having seen a lot of boletes this week,\u00a0it was interesting to find\u00a0that the colour was caused by a fungus – Hypomyces chrysospermus –\u00a0that specialises in feeding on boletes. First they turn white and then a bright yellow colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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