Thursday, 7 January 2021

Through the Scambles

Blackened but swollen not dried out Jelly Ear, Auricularia auricula-judae on the Hairy Curtain Crust Oak by the car park 


Walked along the eastern border and found some nice crusts. There was a spot where you enter the Yews before the beech clearing. Looked like some dried out auburn coloured crusts on the Hazel on the left with a lot of Fuscoporia on the Hornbeam. 


Some great Exidia glandulosa ( = truncata) in really good condition on Hazel, Witches' Butter, by the stream at the start of the scambles near the main path, top surface with warted surface and a velvety reverse side, as in the photos below.  




Showing the velvety reverse of the fruit body, bit also the thin greyish crust next to it.


On the same (?) Hazel, there were some really great reddening Stereum, possibly Stereum rugosum


On the underside of a fallen Spruce trunk in the Scambles. No idea on this one.


A closer view:


Along the boundary path at the edge of the Scambles by three oaks just before the stream there was a fallen branch, now broken into sections, with a very impressive covering of Stereum, this time probably Stereum gausapatum, partly forming narrow caps on either side (semi-pileate?). Note the pale margin in places, contrasting with the stronger central colours. There may be older, duller, crust colour to the bottom right?


It had a clearly felty upperside, behind the leading edge, perhaps surprisingly so! The edge itself is quite serrated, is in "gausapatum".


Apparently orbicular patches becoming confluent:


See the fimbriate edge below?






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