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Title: Does anybody know what this is, please?
Post by: nobby on 22 September, 2019, 06:55:51 pm
(https://i.postimg.cc/JH4FBXJC/Funghi.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JH4FBXJC)

Seen growing from a crevice in a sandstone block wall by a busy B road.
Title: Re: Does anybody know what this is, please?
Post by: Jaded on 22 September, 2019, 07:30:51 pm
Boris Johnson buggering the country?
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Post by: PaulF on 22 September, 2019, 07:31:55 pm
Looks like you’re being mooned by a gnome.
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Post by: Poacher on 22 September, 2019, 07:58:54 pm

Lithops?
Title: Re: Does anybody know what this is, please?
Post by: nobby on 23 September, 2019, 08:37:30 am
Quote from: Poacher on 22 September, 2019, 07:58:54 pm

Lithops?

Interesting thought.
Something along those lines but the South African connection is a long way from the West Midlands of England.
It is a fine piece of fungus (if it is funghus) for a place that cannot be very rich in nutrients.

Thanks for pointing to Lithops. Very interesting.
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Post by: ElyDave on 27 September, 2019, 12:39:28 pm
King Alfred's cakes, daldinia concentrica?

Possibly a young one, St Ray of Mears uses them as fire lighter when ripe. I'm not sure if they start light and go dark, or I'm just talking out of my arse here.
Title: Re: Does anybody know what this is, please?
Post by: nobby on 27 September, 2019, 01:38:55 pm
Quote from: ElyDave on 27 September, 2019, 12:39:28 pm
King Alfred's cakes, daldinia concentrica?

Possibly a young one, St Ray of Mears uses them as fire lighter when ripe. I'm not sure if they start light and go dark, or I'm just talking out of my arse here.

That looks like the answer! Thank you

It looks as though there are two types: a black one and a brown one. The first is good for tinder.
No sign of wood for it to grow on at this site though.
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Post by: ElyDave on 28 September, 2019, 08:51:44 am
that's why i wasn't sure either
Title: Re: Does anybody know what this is, please?
Post by: nobby on 28 September, 2019, 04:56:45 pm
It's probably an urban chancer variant. My favourite kind of wildlife.  :)