Candlesnuff fungus
The candlesnuff fungus is very common. It has an erect, stick-like or forked fruiting body with a black base and white, powdery tip. It grows on dead and rotting wood.
The candlesnuff fungus is very common. It has an erect, stick-like or forked fruiting body with a black base and white, powdery tip. It grows on dead and rotting wood.
The shiny, translucent porcelain fungus certainly lives up to its name in appearance. It can be seen growing on beech trees and dead wood in summer and autumn.
The stinkhorn has an unmistakeable and intense stench that has been likened to rotting meat. Its appearance is also very distinctive: a phallic, white, stem-like structure, with a brown, bell-…
The diminutive common eyelash fungus can be found on wet wood and humous-rich damp soil, often by streams or in wet places. Its orange cup is fringed with tiny, black hairs, providing its common…
Do you have a passion for inspiring children about nature and the natural world? Would you like to help deliver environmental activities to school groups and at family events? This role could be…
Don Wright, Vice President and former Chairman of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, died at home on 5 May 2016 at the age of 86
This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.
This week, Jasmine attended Natural England’s Offshore Wind Event in Brighton. The 2-day event began with a conference and ended with a trip out to sea to the 72 km2 Rampion Wind Farm.
As her student placement with the Trust drew to a close, Lorna had one last opportunity to help on a nature reserve. It turned out to be more eventful than expected.