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NORWICH: Last trip of the year - Earlham Cemetery for more fungi

27th December 2021

My last trip out of 2021 was to Earlham Cemetery where I met up with Ian Senior to have a look at a interesting patch of fungi that he had found there. They look superificially like Psathyrella but the gill arrangement is rather distorted. It might turn out that this was caused by some sort of infection, but it was certainly worth a look. Whilst there I noticed some Sweet Chestnut leaves with microfungi on them, which Stewart Wright identified as Ramularia endophylla and Camarosporium oreades. I noticed some webs on a Phellinus pomaceus bracket, probably caused by either a fungus gnat or a species of Thrip. On the mossy walls at the edge of the cemetery Ian pointed out some Arrhenia rickenii, and I noticed next to them some tiny specimens of Small Moss Oysterling, Arrhenia retiruga.





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