Medicinal Plant Walk - FULLY BOOKED
A fascinating walk with Keith Shawe, who has a PhD in botany and is studying to be a medicinal herbalist, in Halsdon Nature Reserve.
A fascinating walk with Keith Shawe, who has a PhD in botany and is studying to be a medicinal herbalist, in Halsdon Nature Reserve.
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.
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…
Improve your fungi identification skills in the field
Take a guided stroll through one of Manx Wildlife Trust’s newest additions with Conservation Officer, Andree Dubbeldam.
Learn how to identify wildflowers
Join us to get to know some of the wildflowers and other plants that occur in churchyards and burial grounds.
Learn more about fungi and how to identify these fascinating organisms.
Learn how to identify birds by song and plumage at Strawberry Hill reserve