First Foray 16 October 2025
Tim (Bruning), Tim (Dorrington) and Colin (Smith) came out to Ashing Lane Nature Reserve to start a survey of the fungi on the site.
After several hours in Watts Wood, South Wood and Coop Wood, quite a list was being developed and can be found here. As Tim B observes "New-ish plantings can show unusual abundance of particular species which is what we saw". In total, 55 species were identified on the Reserve, after a dry summer, maybe even more to be found in a different year!
The photos from Tim D and Colin are shown below with Tim B's notes:
After several hours in Watts Wood, South Wood and Coop Wood, quite a list was being developed and can be found here. As Tim B observes "New-ish plantings can show unusual abundance of particular species which is what we saw". In total, 55 species were identified on the Reserve, after a dry summer, maybe even more to be found in a different year!
The photos from Tim D and Colin are shown below with Tim B's notes:
Southern Bracket (Ganoderma australe) quite a common one on various broadleaves often in parks and gardens. Watts Wood.
Photo: Tim Dorrington
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The brown-scaly version of Common Inkcap ( Coprinopsis romagnesiana) found as a small tuft by Tim D we think on buried wood by track thro' South Wood - this is the second Lincolnshire record-it's a recently published segregate. Photo: Tim Dorrington
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Girdled Knight ( Tricholoma cingulatum) in large numbers under willows in South Wood , associated with willow, can come in quite quick to new plantings, I don't see it that often. Photo: Tim Dorrington
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Tawny Milkcap ( Lactarius fulvissimus) fairly common under broadleaves. Photo: Tim Dorrington
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Fibrecap (Inocybe curvipes) common mostly in grassy glades in South Wood with birch/willow, has a slightly scaly cap with a prominent umbo. Photo: Tim Bruning
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Fibrecap microscopy - end-cells of hyphae on the gill edge (cystidia) swollen with crystals, and starry nodular spores, x600. Photo: Tim Bruning
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Bleached Brittlegill ( Russula exalbicans) in huge numbers under young birch (? ~ 7 y or so) by lake, photo in situ shows the rose-pink...
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...Bleached bittergill later, washed out to nearly cream
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Mycoacia fuscoatra, a toothed crust fungus from Watt’s Wood, on likely Field Maple branch with at least four other fungi. Appears to be the first Lincolnshire record although not many people locally are looking out for crust fungi.
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22 October 2019
Susie Mendel took some photos of fungi she found on the Reserve. She was confident about the ID of the puffballs and shaggy inkcaps, but six years later, Tim Bruning has done his best to ID the rest from the photos.