A trip into the fine city (Norwich) to twitch two fungi my friend Jeremy had told me about.
The first one was at the UEA and with parking there during the day being a complete nightmare I left the house early. Pulling in near the Sainsbury Centre I found plentiful parking - and my target under a tree just 5 yards from the car! It was the scarce Cedar Cup that bursts from the bare earth under cedar trees. I found 6 specimens in various stages of emergence and set about photographing them.
Second stop was at Sweetbriar Marshes. Here again Jeremy’s directions were spot on with me walking down through Sycamore Wood, over the river footbridge and straight onto the Steccherinum oreophilum growing all over the cut end of a stump by the path. The id has been confirmed with microscopy and it is believed to be the first record for the UK. It’s also rather a cracker of a small toothed bracket fungus.
A Woodcock flushed there was an additional bonus as were numerous Scarlet Elf Cups and Netted Crust.
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