Dessert anyone? Plums & Custard
Plumbs and Custard mushroom. Purple and yellow coloured. Yellow flesh with purple (deep red) flecks or fine scales.
dead wood
What a rotter! (1) – The Willow Shield
The Willow Shield Toadstool. From the Pluteus genus growing on dead wood.
Anyone for cake? – King Alfreds Cakes
Black lumps of King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) grow on the side of dead wood/logs in woodland, from summer to autumn. Old ones last for many years.
Hair raising! – Hairy Stereum
Bracket fungi – The Hairy Stereum or Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum) are orange brown in colour and form in layers on dead wood.
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