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I’m in to woods on my rounds so no books handy to reference. Had this last year but completely forgot what it is. Any thoughts? Not oyster despite first thoughts. It’s about three days old now forgot my phone the last few days
The top photo on the stump without a closeup looks like turkeytail, (trametes versicolor) or a variant of the trametes family.
Love the turkeytail as some can be quite bland in colour while others have a spectacular display.
Probably not much help but I found a list of British false scorpions, not had chance to look further.
http://britishspiders.org.uk/wiki2015/index.php?title=The_Checklist_of_British_False_Scorpions
Having fun identifying these two, the first I believe is the trooping funnel based on the size which was about 20+ cm across, found near hazel, ash and oak. The other possibly Armillaria cepistipes? The stalks are solid and resilient to being touched. Found on two large fallen oaks, oaks are...
Looking to buy a decent pair of working, hiking boots that are !00% waterproof and can go a good ankle deep+ in salt water.
Currently my much loved Solomons have had their day and while they are the most comfortable I have ever work having goretex on the outside id great until the dirt gets into...
I've seen a few slime moulds in the woods, dog vomit, slimeflux, dog sick & wolfs milk etc but can’t seem to pin this one down and it seems to be still growing. Initially thought it may have been false puffball but from what I have seen about it’s the wrong colour ( it’s alway been a light...
What is throwing me was the single cluster of flowers, and the plantsnap app I sometimes use had so many images of different types I do not trust it.
Betony is probably going to be the closest, cheers.
Bit if an unusual one for me, have two of these small plants growing in the nature reserve I look after but cant seem to pin down what it is.
So it has a very thin stem that feels square so thinking mint/ dead nettle family.
The leaves look more like gypsywort but that has different flowers...
Here’s a lovely example of a spiny puffball I took recently, for those that have not bought Geoff’s book yet worth every penny have the updated hardback version plus two copies of the original, one i keep in the van so its my field copy and well used.
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