Monday 18 September 2017

Golden Spindles

Thought I'd go for a walk around the village to clear my head after this weekend's fungus identification marathon.

Couldn't resist snapping a photo of these little beauties, growing on someone's front garden.


I was going to call them Golden Spindles Clavulinopsis fusiformis; but then I noticed the Collins (illustrated) Fungi Guide includes another species, Yellow Club Clavulinopsis helvola, which is "very common; often confused with C. fusiformis but smaller and spores different".

These fruit bodies did seem quite small to me, so I wonder if what I've got here is C. helvola. Haven't had any luck getting a spore print, yet.

For the record
Date: 17/09/2017
Location: Small Dole
Grid reference: TQ2112

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