Botryobasidium aureum

Botryobasidium aureum
Dalgety Bay, Crow Hill Wood
30/01/2018
Rotten log underside

habitus

conidia

E&E

glistening chains of conidia

glistening chains of conidia 2

Cryptocoryneum condensatum, Dalgety Bay

Cryptocoryneum condensatum
Dalgety Bay, Ross Plantation
NT1683
27/01/2018

Stegonosporium pyriforme, Dalgety Bay

A coelomycete that likes Acers, growing on bark of trunk or branches.

Roadside tree

Stegonosporium on the trunk

massed conidia

E&E description

E&E figure

sheathing of conidia not illustrated

Ascocoryne cylichnium, Dalgety bay 15/01/2018

A small ascomycete pulled from a rotten log at the weekend which gave me the runaround at first.

Ascocoryne sarcoides is a frequent sight in any woodland but one disc of it's congener Ascocoryne cylichnium completely threw me. There was only one disc, which led to some keying false starts. Only working back from the fantastic spores was I able to put the other pieces in place. These spores bud off mini-spores, which is a very funky thing to do. You can see from the pics below that the images are full of these tiny spores which I had managed not to see as significant until I already knew they were.

chopped in half for  squishing

Ascus tips blued with iodine

Spores and tons of mini-spores

spores and baby-spores

Spore illustration in Dennis

Fungi of Switzerland

Spore and baby

Another nice find on the same wood was this fantastic Brachysporium masonii

Pseudovalsa lanciformis, Dalgety bay 15/01/2018

On a betula branch beside the coastal path

Culalloe LNR - aquatic hyphomycetes, 31/12/17

A variety from some foam beside one of the channels on the reserve after heavy rains

unknown

unknown

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"clove" - 

Tetracladium maxilliforme

"whiphead" - Dactylella aquatica

unknown

bananiform spore

"rocking horse" - Tricladium angulatum

Tetracladium m

"The top" - 

"Hang ten"  - Tetracladium setigerum

in foam bubble before rinsing

"Flapping bird" -