Porcelain fungus
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 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 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.
Before school finished for the summer holidays, we got to visit Warwickshire Wildlife Trust at their Brandon Marsh nature reserve in Coventry for a Forest School celebration!
This smelly, strange looking fungus is also referred to as octopus stinkhorn or octopus fungus. Its eye-catching red tentacles splay out like a starfish.
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…
A great chance to find out about the wonderful world of fungi, what they are and their vital roles in nature.
A day to celebrate wildlife!
Bring the family to Northumberlandia and join in our carousel of activities through the day celebrating nature for us and for the planet.
Get the family together for a day of activities celebrating our St Nicholas Park nature reserve and the community around it.
Are you passionate about wildlife and nature? Do you want to help us to inspire and enable the people of Cheshire to take action for nature? We are looking for a team of volunteers to support our…
Yesterday afternoon we celebrated some of our stars: those people that make a real difference to UK wildlife and wild places day in, day out. In our annual prize-giving ceremony that rounds off…