Brandon Country Park Fungi – April 2023

15 April 2023

Some fungi highlights from our walk.

Another first for us Thelephora terrestris ( Earthfan )…

Thelephora terrestris – Brandon Country Park – April 2023

We spotted these in the sandy, grassy verges of the paths adjacent stands of conifers.

The next two photos, an unknown crust fungi with wonderful underside tube structure…

Unknown crust fungi – Brandon Country Park – April 2023

From above…

Unknown crust fungi – Brandon Country Park – April 2023

Internal branch structure revealed…

Brandon Country Park – April 2023

Following our discovery of Black Morels – Morchella elata – at the allotment — more excitement when we found a large array of False Morels – Gyromitra esculenta in a large grassy clearing adjacent a conifer stand…

Gyromitra esculenta – False Morel
Brandon Country Park – April 2023
Gyromitra esculenta – False Morel
Brandon Country Park – April 2023
Gyromitra esculenta – False Morel
Brandon Country Park – April 2023

And this wonderful Auriscalpium vulgare – Earpick Fungus…

Auriscalpium vulgare – Earpick Fungus
Brandon Country Park – April 2023

Could this curious form be a misformed puffball…?

misformed puffball ?
Brandon Country Park – April 2023

Some Peziza emerging from under a branch…

Peziza – Brandon Country Park – April 2023
Pezizas – Brandon Country Park – April 2023

Near the carpark a hollow in a Beech tree…

Beech hollow – Brandon Country Park – April 2023