RSPB Strumpshaw Fen – Fuligo septica & some fungi – September 2024

One morning at Strumpshaw Fen woodland lots of Fuligo…

Near Basecamp.

Close up of the above.

All the following were found along the woodland trail around and after The Outpost.

Whilst this could be on the verge of degrading — it doesn’t have the bright yellow colour — it seems similar in colour to the Fuligo aethalia we saw at Pretty Corner Woods near Sheringham in August this year.

Close up of the above below.

And this one too?

Three Fuligo septica on this log – two degraded aethalia and one with the signature bright yellow cortex.

At Basecamp we spotted another specimen of what we believe to be Artomyces pyxidatus on the same log – the log that we often see slime moulds, notably this Stemonitis flavogenita and this Cribraria likely aurantiaca.

Near The Dell on a fragment of wood two tiny mushooms.

On the two photos below, Mykokey’s AI identifier suggests that the open cap mushroom could be Simocybe centunculus — the dingy twiglet.

I’m quite taken with the gills of the right fungus.

We visited Strumpshaw Fen again in late September but there wasn’t that much that we saw and I didn’t feel that my photos were particularly interesting.