Rust Quest

'Rust Quest' was a bit of nonsense I came up with last summer, to add a little excitement to my fungus forays. This was one of my more memorable finds – on the patio! – just shared on Twitter at the time.

Learning plants, one fungal substrate at a time.

I think this is Petty Spurge (Euphorbia peplus) hosting the rust fungus
Melampsora euphorbiae. I'm liking the prickly spores. pic.twitter.com/6ftKXeVfWc

— Clare Blencowe (@__clare__) July 9, 2019

No idea who this little guy is. pic.twitter.com/hC4DjcIjvX

— Clare Blencowe (@__clare__) July 9, 2019

As so often happens in my mycological adventures, I find that Malcolm Storey has seen this before, and taken a better photo. https://t.co/7M59wEHsdN

— Clare Blencowe (@__clare__) July 9, 2019

Looks like I might have a Mycodiplosis fly larva? A rust-feeding species. https://t.co/AFJFuyu6Bh

— Clare Blencowe (@__clare__) July 9, 2019

Now seems like a good time to seek out a few more rusts and smuts around here!

For the record
Date: 9 July 2019
Location: Small Dole, West Sussex