The lovely orange-brown caps of Velvet Shank seemed to be glowing from out of the damp, moss covered rotting wood. The bright orange caps are generally darker towards the centre and appear slimy in wet conditions (they dry to a...

Very thin multicoloured bracket. The fruit body is semicircular or shell-shaped bracket with thin, wavy margin; sometimes form a rosette when growing horizontally. The upper surface is undulating and velvety, with a tough, leathery texture, dries hard and retains its...

Tripe Fungus is quite variable in appearance, depending on the state of decay of its host timber as well as the developmental stage of the fruitbodies. Like most if not all jelly fungi, Auricularia mesentica generally favours damp shady sites....

Venturing into Porthkerry Wood, (Vale of Glamorgan, Wales)  I found these Scarlet Elf Cups, partly buried in damp moss and rotting wood. “The irregularly shaped cups have a smooth, bright red hymenial (fertile) inner surface and a felted outer surface....

Pinkish pale bracket with a rubbery gelatinous texture. Likes to form densely fused rows of overlapping tiers on fallen and dead wood of deciduous trees and shrubs. Brynna Woods (near Bridgend) South Wales Brynna woods comprises of 38ha of secondary...

Members of the family Exidiaceae are geletinous or jelly fungi in varied irregular shapes. They are generally associated with dead wood, both standing and fallen; some are host specific. Like most jelly fungi, they are conspicuous only in wet weather...

When I came across this fungi my initial thought was that it looked like an ear. Being trained as an artist I couldn’t help but think of Vincent Van Gogh’s cut off ear being somehow surrealistically transposed in time and...

The common name Hairy Curtain Crust reflects the rippled form of edges of the fruitbodies, which do look like partly-drawn curtains. In this capture the fungi is growing out of the dead wood in the form of tiers of reflexed...

The genus Hygrocybe includes some colourful species. Most species favour unimproved grassland, particularly where it is grazed or cut; they fruit in late summer and continue through to late autumn. This small yellow waxcap has a greasy head and dry...

It was the 1st April and while walking along the river Lyner, a couple of miles outside Callington, Cornwall, I was surprised to have found plenty of fungi still growing out of rotting stumps. These captures were taken with the...