Today, the weather was warm, but very damp — sections of the reserve woodland had flooded.
ENTRANCE AREA
Immediately left off the Entrance Path, I found a Fuligo septica aethalium (Fig. 5.0) on rotting leaves.
I then found a group of Tricholoma album (Fig. 5.1) that I saw last year in the same place.
BASECAMP AREA
In the Basecamp Loop, I saw the Peziza group and a small group of pink Stemonitis (Fig. 5.2).
By the path down to Basecamp, the Fuligo cinerea from previous weeks was rapidly disintegrating.
The Stemonitis group from Day 4 had become much smaller.
I also spotted a group of buff Disco fungi (Fig. 5.3) .
At Basecamp, I spotted a small group of Scutellinia scutellata (Fig. 5.4) under one of the log circle logs, and more Peziza (Fig. 5.5).
On a log just behind the activity tent, I found Ramaria stricta (Fig. 5.6) and a group of a white slime mould (Fig. 5.7).
Unidentified
Basecamp
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0723-Unknown-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Scutellinia scutellata
Basecamp
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Figure 5.
Peziza species
Basecamp
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/0742-Peziza-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Ramaria stricta
Basecamp
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0746-Clavulina-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Unidentified slimemould
Basecamp
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0749-Slimemould-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
At the end of the Basecamp Rail Track Path I found a solitary Parasola conopilea (Fig. 5.8) in the tall grass.
THE DELL
In The Dell, I spotted another Fuligo septica (Fig. 5.9) draping off a suspended twig and lots of little brown mushrooms.
The Hemitrichia clavata was still there, but beside it I saw a tiny group of dull pink sporangia (these later turned out to be an earlier form of H. clavata).
In a hazel coppice stump I came across Hypholoma fasciculare, and later in the area some Hymenochaete rubiginosa (Fig. 5.10), Lycogala epidendrum (Fig. 5.11) and Ganoderma applanatum.
Fuligo septica
The Dell
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0753-Fuligo-septica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-450x339.webp)
Figure 5.
Hymenochaete rubiginosa
The Dell
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Figure 5.
Lycogala epidendrum
The Dell
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0767-Lycogala-epidendrum-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
SANDY GLADE AREA
In the Sandy Glade clearing, as in previous weeks, I saw Hemitrichia clavata from previous days and the Marasmius rotula from Day 2.
Down the Fen Trail Turnoff, I noticed a group of Scleroderma verrucosum (Fig. 5.12) with some pink fungi — these may have been Clitocybe gemina (Fig. 5.13).
ENCLOSED AREA
In the Enclosed Area, I saw the Collybiopsis ramealis and the Picipes badius from previous days.
Further in, I found a singular Inocybe (Fig. 5.14), but, more excitingly, I spotted not one but two groups of coral fungi: Clavulinopsis species (Fig. 5.15), and a Clavaria species (Fig. 5.16).
Aside from these I also spotted large groups of Leota lubrica, a Hygrocybe conica (Fig. 5.17), some Peziza species (Fig. 5.18), Scutellinia scutellata (Fig. 5.19) and a silvery grey cup — Humaria hemisphaerica (Fig. 5.20).
Inocybe species
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0823-Inocybe-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Clavulinopsis species
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0812-Clavulinopsis-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Clavaria species
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0792-Poss.-Clavaria-argillacea-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Hygrocybe conica
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0813-Hygrocybe-conica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Peziza species
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0826-Peziza-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Scutellinia scutellata
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0829-Scutellinia-scutellata-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Humaria hemisphaerica
The Enclosed Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0796-Humaria-hemisphaerica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
YEW GROVE AREA
On the woodland path to the Yew Grove, I saw a large group of Coprinellus disseminatus at the base of a tree, and an equally large group of Laccaria bicolour just after the Yew Grove.
I also spotted Calocera viscosa (Fig. 5.21) on the roots of a tree and the Chlorociboria from previous days.
OUTPOST AREA
At The Outpost, I saw the disintegrating spore mass of the Fuligo cinerea from previous days and a small group of Lycogala epidendrum.
TRAIL END AREA
In the Trail End Area, I spotted many Fuligo septica (Figs. 5.22–5.25), Arcyria cinerea, Stemonitis on various rotting log piles and a bracket species. (Fig. 5.26).
Fuligo septica
Trail End Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0891-Fuligo-septica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Fuligo septica
Trail End Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0876-Fuligo-septica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Fuligo septica
Trail End Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0873-Fuligo-septica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Fuligo septica
Trail End Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0898-Fuligo-septica-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-scaled-1-450x339.jpg)
Figure 5.
Unidentified
Trail End Area
![](https://www.amcalenan.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0874-Bracket-species-Strumpshaw-Fen-03rd-09-2023-450x339.webp)
Figure 5.
OTHER
Throughout the reserve woodland, I found Scleroderma citrinum and Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa.
The Hydnum repandum was still around.