Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[old snake]

Found these in our log barn the other day

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Lovely shots of Flammulina velutipes, the dark backdrop sets em off really well.

[Omniata]

Are fungi like that edible???

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The velvet shank is edible, and the cultivated form known as nobuki in japan is unrecognisable as it is forced in the dark and grown in jars, this keeps it in a young energy rich form as it seeks the light to fruit fully, they become long and bleached. Highly prized in Japan.

[Omniata]

The velvet shank is edible, and the cultivated form known as nobuki in japan is unrecognisable as it is forced in the dark and grown in jars, this keeps it in a young energy rich form as it seeks the light to fruit fully, they become long and bleached. Highly prized in Japan.

 

 

Like these?:

 

 

You can buy these from my local chinese cash and carry

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Like these?:

 

 

You can buy these from my local chinese cash and carry

 

try them! thats the flammulina!

[Arborist]

Took these on Wednesday, think there Candle-snuff fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon and saprophytic.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Took these on Wednesday, think there Candle-snuff fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon and saprophytic.

 

Those Xylaria hypoxylons are very unusual, they are never in my experiance so elongated, was there a log close to this one? so that they had to extend towards the light?

 

I reckon they are 5-8 times normal lengths!

[Arborist]

I found it on the floor in dead bracken in merrist wood woods, no log just in the open.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I found it on the floor in dead bracken in merrist wood woods, no log just in the open.

 

that would do it, the bracken forced it to rise to light, interesting little image my friend, another one logged in the observation banks!