Weird and Wonderful Wild Mushrooms

I wrote about the fluke of finding Lachnellula resinaria var. resinaria in my last post—fluke because they were so incredibly tiny. I f...

Lachnellula resinaria var. resinaria So this one was just a fluke, really, or maybe desperation on my part at the end of a slow day sl...

The gill-like folds of Plicaturopsis crispa often have a green tinge. Plicaturopsis crispa is a sweet little sessile mushroo...

These small, stalked Daldinia grow on alder. My favourite find in our ice-and-snow-covered wetland this winter is a very peculiar li...

[N.B. since I wrote this post Datronia scutellata has been moved to the genus  Datroniella - see below for reference ] Some Datronia ...

"Fairy Pins" growing on Phellinopsis conchata growing on black ash ( Fraxinus nigra ). I used to be able to count the...