Thanks John, let’s hope they reappear next season, if they do please get in touch 🤞🏼

I saw the posts, there are several yet to be determined species around H. insipida, H. mucronella, H. calciphila that sequencing is revealing. If you see them again and can dry one get in touch and I’ll sequence it

I agree, it’s an interesting find. It might be something that’s quite uncommon or it might be something more common that’s either been through tough times with slugs or even grazing / nibbling. Are you sequencing this?

Nice find, rare in my part of the world, the Cotswolds

If we had to start conservation efforts again, based on what we now know of the ecologically important role fungi have (including our own survival), we would put fungi first. Fungi are foundational and support most life as we know it

I agree, If you can find evidence of any proper mycological field surveys having been carried out in that area though I would be most interested to know as I’ve yet to find any evidence. Perhaps we may have to wait for answers but to the best of my knowledge none exist

Sure, I live in the area and have had no response from my requests for the information so am raising a FOI request, I also have one going in for WENP who only mention fungi twice in the LNRS. I’ve also been involved in planting 1000’s of trees.

Given that up to 56% of biodiversity is soil based, and while trees capture carbon fungi store carbon, I’m surprised this ecology changing project can go ahead without proper survey work that protects existing biodiversity. I hope losses are factored in before gains are calculated

Difficult to tell what your image is of, it’s a different species to mine though, perhaps Clavulina coralloides - Crested Coral would be a good contender

It will be interesting to see how they value the fungi kingdom, I’ll be watching that for certain. It is very encouraging that they are meeting but let’s not forget there are also legal requirements involved

Yes, 4pm in the closing light, the colours here are true to form though, the pink gills and dark grey stipe are spot on 👍🏼

They actually look like they may be Hygrocybe calciphila but you would need to carry out microscopy to separate them from other species

Thank you, very interesting, I think this has been on the cards for a while so it’s good to have a better insight 👍🏼

That’s a great find of a very uncommon species👍🏼

These are Hygrocybe splendidissima, a much rarer find and one of conservation concern, very nice

No problem David, it’s a tricky one 👍🏼