Fabulous fungi…

I have been finding more and more fungi in the garden over the years with all the garden renovations and new plants being added. I am no expert so I can’t identify them properly but I have had a go by researching on the internet and buying a good book. When we brought the logs in to the garden we didn’t know the tree varieties and some fungi are tree specific so I have just had to have a guess. This first one was on a log we found just behind the wall of the garden and we put it in front of the patio where we were planting some ferns. It is some kind of large bracket fungus and it was there for ages until something started taking nibbles out of it. It never came back. The next one is an Earth star (Geastrum) but I am not sure if it is a collared one or not. Next there is coral fungi but I am not sure if it is Ramaria stricta or maybe flaccida. I even found some brilliant yellow fungi (Leucocoprimus birnbaumii) at the base of my Beaucarnea recurvata (pony tail plant or elephant foot) in the conservatory. On the mossy logs in the stumpery I found some common bonnet or clustered bonnet and they are so pretty. Also near the stumpery were a couple of common morels (Morchella esculent) but I didn’t try and eat these as I was unsure. I have a cherry tree planted in a half barrel on the patio with moss growing in places on the barrel and a few tiny orange fungi popped up which might be Rickenella fibula. In among the borders I found a very strange looking dark grey fungus and I think it might be Elfin saddle (Helvella lacunosa). There have been other fungi but they don’t hang around for long and I have missed a few by thinking I did’t have time to take a photo that day and that I would do it the following day only to find they had disappeared. I do hope they come back.