Gernon Bushes Nature Reserve
Step straight in to a fairy tale with this beautiful ancient woodland, filled with rare and fascinating marsh plants and flowers
Step straight in to a fairy tale with this beautiful ancient woodland, filled with rare and fascinating marsh plants and flowers
Explore woodland glades and ponds at this tranquil nature reserve
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.
Join Nick Feledziak (Woodland Officer) for a guided walk around this tranquil nature reserve.
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.
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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…
Explore the weird and wonderful biology of fungi and learn some identification skills too on this fascinating foray through Ray Wood.