Southborough Common

Not a huge amount to be seen, but they were tremendous numbers of sulphur tuft particularly.

Another wood-attacking species: This is the Common Rustgill, Gymnopilus penetrans, A Rustgill without scales on its cap. 

Also chewing away on wood is this Black Bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans. The Americans call these "black jelly drops". An unusual Ascomycete, not one of the Jelly-like Basidiomycetes I usually see. The rough brown outer surfaces of the cups clearly separate this species from those jellies, although these become blacker and smoother with age.

Also on Beech, a moribund standing trunk, is a collection of Ganoderma brackets.

Ever present is the Birch Polypore, Fomitopsis betulina.

and these are the Stump or Pear-shaped Puffballs, Apioperdon perlatum.

These are the most renowned wood-rotters, Honey Fungus, in this case the Ringless Honey Fungus, Armillaria ostoyae.

Common earthballs, Scleroderma citrinum

and a huge boss on the side of a tree trunk