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The Fungi Gallery

Hygrocybe

Hygrocybe conica

On sandy soil amidst low grass, some distance behind the sand dunes at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian.
Cantharellus

Cantharellus tubaeformis

Emerging from amongst leaf litter in mixed woodland in Church Wood, Humbie, East Lothian.
Octospora

Octospora rutilans

Growing on a muddy track in Yair Forest near Selkirk, Scottish Borders. The conifer needle gives an idea of scale.
Cystoderma

Cystoderma amianthemum

The twig bearing little pegs, and the cone, show that Spruce trees (Picea sp.) are nearby. Woolshears Wood in the Scottish Borders.
Chlorociboria

Chlorociboria sp.

Ascocarps on a richly-stained rotting log in Yair Forest near Selkirk, Scottish Borders.
Oudemansiella

Oudemansiella mucida

A single large rotting limb of Beech near Swanston, Edinburgh, was covered in these photogenic toadstools.
Ramaria

Ramaria flaccida

Growing at the base of Spruce trees (Picea sp.) in Church Wood, Humbie, East Lothian.
Pleurocybella

Pleurocybella porrigens

Growing amongst abundant but well-decayed conifer debris below a mixed stand of conifers in Loch Ard Forest, Stirlingshire
Lycoperdon

Lycoperdon perlatum

An attractive troupe beside a boggy stream below conifers. Thornylee Craigs near Peebles.
Otidea

Otidea onotica

Cups 3cm in diameter with thin and very brittle flesh. Deciduous woodland near Kippen, Stirlingshire.
Bisporella

Bisporella citrina

A little colony occupying a hole in the bark of a rotting Beech limb, Arniston Estate, Midlothian.
Mycena

Mycena inclinata

An elegant group on an old cut tree stump in Church Wood, Humbie, East Lothian.
Lizonia

Lizonia sp.

Perithecia amongst the perigonial leaves on old shoots of male Polytrichum.
Ascocoryne

Ascocoryne sarcoides

A very variable species in both appearance and colour. On a fallen and decaying Beech in Arniston Estate, Midlothian.
Clavulina

Clavulina coralloides

On forest floor litter below a planted conifer stand in Church Wood, Humbie, East Lothian.
Scutellinia

Scutellinia scutellata

Showing the long fringing hairs, even on young and expanding ascocarps. Growing on bark on a fallen and rotting Beech tree in Arniston Estate, Midlothian.
Coprinus

Coprinus sp.

The deliquescence of the basidiocarp of these inkcaps releases the spores. Pressmennan Wood, East Lothian.
Tremella

Tremella mesenterica

This species is parasitic on the Basidiomycete Peniophora. On a tall gorse bush in Garchrie Wood by Lochnaw Loch, Dumfries and Galloway.