Trying to identify some fungi & lesser plants

Eyeball Tickler · 13-11-2012 02:10AM #1

Hi everyone, I took a load of photos at Lackavrea forest in Connemara last week — I'm writing an article about the area and trying to identify some of the more interesting and common species I saw. I've given it my best go with a Collins' Complete Irish Wildlife guide, but I'm still fairly unsure about a lot of the species I saw. Can anyone help?

The photos are here, only the top nine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87408083@N03/

Here's my best guesses as it stands:

1. Deceiver fungus?
2. (moving L-R) Sickener fungus?
3. Honey fungus?
4. Deceiver?
5. Deceiver?
6. This is some sort of scat — maybe a pine marten?
7. Wondering what this moss species is
8 & 9. Wondering what the main grass species are likely to be here

Any suggestions would be massively appreciated. Thanks very much for reading.

Desmo · 20-11-2012 12:23PM

Eyeball Tickler wrote: »

Hi everyone, I took a load of photos at Lackavrea forest in Connemara last week — I'm writing an article about the area and trying to identify some of the more interesting and common species I saw. I've given it my best go with a Collins' Complete Irish Wildlife guide, but I'm still fairly unsure about a lot of the species I saw. Can anyone help?

The photos are here, only the top nine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87408083@N03/

Here's my best guesses as it stands:

1. Deceiver fungus?
2. (moving L-R) Sickener fungus?
3. Honey fungus?
4. Deceiver?
5. Deceiver?
6. This is some sort of scat — maybe a pine marten?
7. Wondering what this moss species is
8 & 9. Wondering what the main grass species are likely to be here

Any suggestions would be massively appreciated. Thanks very much for reading.

I have no idea about fungi but the moss in pic one is Polytrichum (about 10 species in Ireland). The moss in pic 7 is out of focus so kind of hard to see but is either tufts of same as pic 1 or more likely Sphagnum (great soggy spongy wadges of it). These are actually very different from each other but it is kind of hard to make out in the pic. Polytrichum look like little xmas trees with no branches and the big species can be 30cm long and grow in big tufts. Sphagnum grow in great soggy heaps and are the main species on bogs. The grass in the last 2 figs could be purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea) which is abundant across blanket bogs and uplands.

Eyeball Tickler · 29-11-2012 10:12PM

Thanks a million for that Desmo

Trying to identify some fungi & lesser plants

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