Fungi at Old Woodcutter's Yard

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A couple of finds ignoring the recent frosts at Old Woodcutter's Yard. The orange discs are superficially similar to the larger Orange Peel Fungus but are in fact a species known as Melastiza chateri characterised by growing in large groups on bare soil, in this case a muddy heap of old Sugar Beet waste and having fine black hairs around the cup margin. The other photo is of the more familiar Smoky Polypore Bjerkandera adusta which is typically found on most hardwoods.

Thanks as ever to Old Woodcutter for allowing access to look for fungi.