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GLFG 02 Draft Issue 02 August 2014 (Fluted Birds Nest) at Coed Y Bwl Nature Reserve, Vale of Glamorgan Inside this Issue………. Myxo madness, Fungi Art, Foray Summary, Members Gallery, Beginners Notes, Pick a patch, Favourite Fungi and more! My Favourite Fungi There are so many different fungi that it is difficult to pick a favourite but this month is top of my list. Its not one I am likely to see as it is found in Malaysia. This member of the Boletaceae family looks like a sponge, which is why it is named after one of my favourite cartoon characters, Spongebob Squarepants! The fruit bodies are up to 10 cm wide and 7 cm tall. Like a sponge, they will resume their original shape if water is squeezed out. Not sure I would want to take one into the bath though! Rudi Bright (Age 10) Spongiforma squarepantsii Spongebob Squarepants What's on? - Diary Dates Group Foray to Taf Fechan Nature Reserve , Merthyr Tydfil - Saturday 6th September Group Foray to Oldcastle Down, St Brides Major, near Bridgend - Sunday 5th October National Fungus Day - Fun Day at Parc Slip Nature Reserve, Tondu, Bridgend - Sunday 12th October Group Foray to Penllegare Valley Wood, Swansea - Saturday 1st November In addition to these events, the group holds an informal foray once a month (usually the last Sunday of the month) at various locations throughout Glamorgan (VC41). For further information, please contact Mike Bright at [email protected] or keep an eye on the group Facebook Page And don’t forget, Contributions for our Newsletters are always gratefully received!! (Articles, photographs, stories, thoughts and letters - all welcome) So, you have read the article in our first newsletter and now know what information to record when you find your fungi. You have splashed some cash and ‘tooled up’ with a shiny new guidebook, hand-lens, knife and the all-important basket. You look the part but what do you do next? Well, the obvious answer is ‘go outside’ but it’s a big world out there, where should you go? It’s all very well poring over a map looking for different habitats to go in search of new finds but when you are starting out, the sheer number of fungal possibilities can be overwhelming and you run the risk of giving up before you start, abandoning your new hobby and just leaving your guidebook to gather dust on the shelf. If you want to learn quickly and keep your interest throughout the year, you need to focus down, do what many birders do and pick a patch! You are going to want to visit your patch as often as possible (I usually visit mine at least once a week) so somewhere within a short walk of home or work is ideal. Keep it small, we all lead busy lives and if it takes you too long to have a weekly nose Around, you run the danger of skipping visit - and we all know when you skip a visit that is when the really interesting stuff will be out. Try and choose somewhere with a mixture of habitats, your main concern being to pick somewhere that will have interest throughout the year, which means that a certain degree of woodland is needed. It helps if your patch has definite boundaries; mine is a small woodland surrounded by a wall which conveniently stops me wandering off into the distance. Right, now it’s time to get out there! Before you start, be conscious of your speed, the adult world is fast-paced but that’s no good if you want to find tiny tiny things in a big dark wood. You need to go at toddler-speed, as toddlers take forever to walk the smallest of distances because they are totally absorbed in their immediate surroundings. This is exactly the frame of mind you need to be in to find fungi! If you are having trouble slowing down and have access to a toddler (or child), I would highly recommend taking them along with you to slow you down (with the parent’s permission of course). It’s no good dreamily floating around your patch - you must get stuck in and that means dirty hands and dirty knees! Head for rotting timber and log-piles, getting down to ground level as often as possible. Don’t just look on the top surface, check out the ends, gently lift and look underneath and make use of your nice new hand-lens. Do not visit your patch if you are in a rush! Found something? You know what to do, take pictures (from different angles), take field notes (size/shape/smell/gills/pores/what’s it growing on?), collect a specimen (if you need to) for further examination and to take a spore print. Try to identify it yourself using your books but remember you are a beginner don’t expect an ID For everything you find, sometimes that is only possible with a microscope and decades of experience – no matter how much you want to identify that LBM (Little Brown Mushroom) you may have to let it go, don’t be dejected. What’s this? Its may be Snowy Disco) but you need a microscope and a stack of books to be sure. If you can’t identify it, then it’s time to put the details that you have recorded together with the pictures and ask for some help (you can upload to Ispot or use facebook FB Glamorgan Fungus Group or FB British Mycological Society ) – just remember, some fungi can be identified from photos alone but most will need a copy of your field notes and colour of the spores (from your spore print) to get you a positive ID. There is still a lot that we do not know about fungi and one of the ways for the professionals to make inroads into this is for us all to keep records of our finds (specimens, dates, locations, habitats). Keeping records might seem boring but lists can be fun especially if you are keeping a running count of the finds on your patch. Within a month you will be at one with your patch and feel in tune with the seasons. You will know the best spots to look and the best times to go and you will feel great when you find something new. If you hit a dull patch with not much around wait for the rain and visit 1 or 2 or 3 days after to see the full succession of fruiting bodies. Visiting the woods once a week will enable you to appreciate the seasonality of the fungal world and you really never know what you might find. When you are starting out there are many things to remember, top of the list is to have fun! Enjoy yourself and as a beginner, make the most of your first fungal year. It’s the best chance you will get to find a new fungi every time you step out onto your patch. Mike Bright SLIME MOULDS – MYXOMYCETES By Mark Steer Welcome to a brief introduction to a fascinating group of 'creatures'! It has been suggested that Slime Moulds were the inspiration for the Hollywood movie 'The Blob' (1958) starring Steve McQueen and re-made in 1988! These are not Fungi but are often studied by Mycologists. They are classified as Protoza/Amoeboza and start off life as amoeba-like cells that move! This is the Plasmoidal stage where they creep across vegetation or dead wood at up to the rate of 2.5cm per hour devouring bacteria, fungal spores and whatever else takes their fancy! When food runs out or because of light or moisture-changes, these cells join together to form the next stage – a Sporangia. This stage is usually the easiest time for us to spot them and try to identify! Often at this stage they are less than 1cm with a lot of different shapes and colours. At the end of this stage, spores are released which go on to form the amoeba-like cells elsewhere. There are well over 1000 species recognised worldwide but there are probably many more lurking out there waiting to be discovered! I'll describe a few that I have come across which are fairly common and large enough to see without a hand lens. (Dog's Vomit or Scrambled Egg) This one is found on dead logs in shaded areas and is usually quite vivid yellow. It's English names are quite descriptive! Photo - Mike Bright Photo - Graham Cox (False Puffball) This is found on dead tree trunks and logs usually in shaded locations. It starts off looking like a blob of spit which develops into a mass looking a bit like rough polystyrene. Colour is white to cream. It then progresses to a smooth polystyrene- like white coloured mass. It can reach 10 x 8 cm or more and is usually oval in shape. This then changes to a silvery smooth form that after a day or two, starts splitting to expose a brown spore mass. The spores are dispersed by wind and rain. Photo - Mark Steer Photo - Graham Cox (Wolf's Milk) These appear on dead logs and form pinkish/orange spherical masses to 1.5cm diameter. They are usually clustered and sometimes in profusion. You need to watch how it develops to see what colour the spore mass becomes – has dull pink spores and has grey spores. I'm not sure which my photo is as I didn't pay enough attention at the time! I'm hoping it will reappear this year so I can check.
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