Green Elfcup (Chlorociboria aeruginascens)
This Green Elfcup fungi is common within Hutton Roof. I found these above on log piles within the bottom section of Lancelot Clark Storth. I have also found it within the bottom section of Dalton Crags again on decaying wood. (Nov/Dec)
"Tunbridge" ware furniture staining came about through the colouring of this particular fungi
Brown Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum)
I found this bolete fungi on what I call "The Bonk" or Hypericum Way in Lower Dalton Crags. It was growing on the stumps of birch.
Amanita fungi
I found this in the area I named "Mossy Stones". 20 minute walk after parking up on the Clawthorpe Lane (South facing side) carry on walking the main footpath S and Mossy Stones is more or less on the left hand side to were the Uberash is on the right.
Blushing Rossette (Abortipoirous biennis)
This specimen was growing on the base of a tree stump with dirt all around.
I found it whilst taking the bridleway which runs alongside the farm on the Hilderstone Road which is about 200 yards on leaving the Mosses road just after the railway bridge.
After researching I gather this comes under the category of slime moulds.
SPINY PUFFBALL (Lycoperdon echinatum)
I almost stumbled upon this beautiful fungi whilst walking from the Trig Point to the North direction and shortly after dropping down the escarpment to the lower level. Although when I first found it in 2014 it had 3 balls, but checking it out the following year in 2015 this was down to a single and I have not found any in the following years so far!
The following photo shows it the following year (2015) when just the one appeared which looked very hedgehoggy.
According to Cumbria Biodiversity (5/12/2014) it was last recorded in Cumbria was back in 1997)
(above) This beauty I found on the east side of Hutton Roof, highly elevated at an area above Kelker Well, with large amounts of bracken on the floor levels. It is shown as it was on a twig along with other unidentified lichens. I feel reasonably happy with the diagnosis of the Hoary Rosette Lichen (Physcia aipolia) although after saying that it could well have a second choice which may well be Physcia stellaris.
Elfin Saddle fungi (Helvella lacunosa)
22nd November 2021 – Dalton Crags.
A strange looking mushroom I found amongst the leaf litter on the floor beneath a Beech tree in Woodland making up part of Dalton Crags, Burton In Kendal, Cumbria (or old Westmorland). The mushroom was about 6cm tall and of a slate grey colour and so unusual appearance with humps and bumps, yet somehow it had something appealing about it that made you want to check it out more. According to the references it is not that rare, but a first for me. First discovered in 1783 by a Swedish naturalist Adam Afzelius who christened it “Helvella lacunosa” . Helvella means “aromic herb” and lacunosa means “having holes”.
"At first to me, it looked so strange in fact ugly - yet search deeper (look more than once) and you really do see a new found beauty". - The old adage "Never judge a book by its cover"
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In memory of Bryan John Yorke (3rd January 1948 - 28th May 2022) . A hugely knowledgeable but utterly humble man. He loved this area, and ...
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