a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

at long last Spot has found a dog stinkhorn (badly photographed unfortunately), smaller and more slender than its common cousin, but much ...

Back to more local matters. It looks like it is going to be a good year for mushrooms, and they are beginning to appear in abundance wher...

the smallest of the small (? mycena or marasmius sps) growing in a forest of moss, and a large parasol mushroom emerging in a hedgero...

Above, the first tortoiseshell of the year that we have seen , and below Spot's favourite fungus, the well named and well endowed ...

not snowy but damp enough for these common and edible mushrooms to appear in our paddock. Unfortunately, as always seems to be the cas...

These mushrooms have appeared in our paddock. As far as I know this is the first time they have appeared. It is very hard to identify mus...

the bracket fungus eye (if they have an eye) view of the tree

  not a lot is going on at the moment although there are more mushrooms about than usual for the time of year. These very large mu...

Bracken has now turned reddish orange and brown. The dearth of mushrooms continues but at least there is fly agaric around to add some ...

this is a stinkhorn, usually smelled rather than seen, but this was a very fresh and especially pungent specimen. It spreads its spores by ...

this jet black mushroom is a chanterelle known as Horn of Plenty or Black Trumpet, and in France as la viande des pauvres (poor man's me...

sloes, sweet chestnuts, and I am not sure what. possibly wrinked club, but all are redolent of autumn

last night's fiery sunset, and some fresh scarlet elf cups from this morning's walk. People are saying that this Spring will be very...

Spot found these minute white, semi transparent mushrooms growing under a fallen tree. He has no idea what species they are.

the yellow brain fungus (tremella mesenterica) which certainly looks more mesenteric than cerebral, growing on fallen birch. One book says e...

At last I have some more information. This sort of ice formation is called frost flowers (see link and Wiki ), and is rare, and has never ...

at almost the same time of year last year, and under similar very frosty conditions, we found these peculiar looking excrescences on dead tw...

a delicate little mushroom looking very like a Japanese parasol, one of the many mycena species.

some sort of bracket fungus, as usual it remains unidentified.