28th June 2021
Ending a good month for local wildlife sightings, I noticed some small white spikes growing by the path at Lakenham Way. They seemed to be localised beneath a single Hawthorn bush, and further investigation showed that they were growing on old buried Hawthorn berries. Fortunately Suffolk county fungus recorder Neil Mahler recalled an old journal article about them, Haw Candlesnuff (Xylaria oxycanthae). New to Norfolk, and an unusual species in that they seem to fruit in mid-summer and I've not noted them here despite walking this way into the city regularly for many years.
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