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DAY 2 :

Ascomycetes
Basidiomycetes
Myxomycetes

Ascomycetes

Species
Habitat / Notes
Photograph 
Scutellinia scutellata "the eyelash fungus"

decaying wood

Cordyceps sp. moss, centre of Shambellie woods car park 

growing from buried matter, possibly caterpillar / truffle

Basidiomycetes

Species
Habitat / Notes
Photograph 
Amanita rubescens Mixed woodland
Pluteus Note the crowded pinkish coloured gills, and absence of a ring on the stalk.
Laccaria laccata  Woody leaf litter
Hygrocybe Lawn, estate gardens
Cantharellus cibarius Growing in thick moss around the rootd at the base of a mature beech tree
Mycena Beech seed
Mycena Rotting Wood
Mycena  rhizomorphic mycelium
Russula Near mixed trees on lawn, 
estate gardens
Suillus Near mixed trees on lawn, 
estate gardens
Phallus impudicus "Stinkhorn"
Section through an "egg"
Note the spore mass in green and the hollow stalk in centre.
Mutinus caninus "Dog stinkhorn"
Section through "an egg"

The eggs are much smaller than P. impudicus
 

Tremella Growing on dead branches

Myxomycetes

Species
Habitat / Notes
Photograph 
Yellow Plasmodium Moving up a dead twig
Fuligo septica Yellow slime mould
Growing on moss
mature specimen

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