Wheatfen


Hazel (Corylus avellana)




Alder Goblet (Ciboria caucus) on Alder (Alnus glutinosa) catkins

Deconicus horizontalis
4 spored basidia plus the spores had a germ pore
Houghton Hall





Melanelixia subaurifera
BLS
Chrysothrix Sp

Hyperphyscia adglutinata
Dorset Lichens
Irish Lichens
Lichen Sp1
Lichenicolous Fungi on Parmelia subrudecta
Lecanora expallens
BLS


Parmelia saxatilis
BLS
Chaenotheca trichialis
Dorset Lichens
Anisomeridium biforme
Lichens maritime



Inosculation or natural grafting. Multiple trees planted very close together can grow into a single, large thick trunked tree.
As they grow together the bark scrapes away and the cambium layers fuse together.
Known as bundle planting
also sometimes called
Planting a 'gemel' (Pair)
17th Century landscape design practice recommend by John Evelyn
Evidence of Bundle Planting from the Dendrochronicle

Lecanactis abietina
Also seen on trees at Felbrigg and Thursford Woods
BLS

Scythioria (Caloplaca) phlogina
Irish Lichens





Pachnolepia pruinata
BLS



Sphorodophoron cretaceum
A distinctive white crust found on the dry side old trees.
A component of the Ancient Dry Bark Community
K+ Bright Yellow
BLS 

Chaenotheca hispidula
An ancient tree species
A superb image from naturarkivet - Norway
Caloplaca oasis
Lichens Maritime
Physcia ceasia?

There were a number of things this could Lecidella stigmata being just one of them.
Three species present
From the left
Redshank (Ceratadon purpureum) - HeathStar Moss (Campylopus introflexus) - Grey-cushioned Grimmia (Grimmia pulvinata) - HeathStar Moss (Campylopus introflexus)


Lecanora polytropa
BLS
Lecanora soralifera
Irish Lichens

Scoliosporum umbrinum

Lichen Sp 2

Acarospora privigna
Lichens Maritime


Caloplaca flavescens & Flavoplaca/Caloplaca dichroa
Lichens maritime
Buellia ocelatta
Lichens Maritimes

Bagliettoa Sp?


Haematomma ochrocrleucum
Lichen Maritimes
Physcia orbicularis
BLS
Cladonia Sp
Apologies Rob I forgot to give it back to you. It's on a gravestone.
Lichen Sp 3
Lichen Medley



Verrucaria macrostoma form fufuracea
Irish Lichens
Yes (Taxus baccata) growing in the wall of the church
Lichen Sp 4

Fruiting Diploicea canescens
BLS

Lecanora campestris


Diplotoma alboatrum
Dorset Nature

Myriolecis crenulata

Lecanora antiqua

Found on a gravestone
Sent to BTO
Ringing Scheme: London Ring Number: BLD8878 Species of bird: Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
This bird was ringed by North Norfolk Ringing Group as age juvenile (passerines only), sex unknown on 09-Jun-2025 08:30:00 at Houghton Park, Norfolk, England
OS Map reference TF7828 accuracy 0, - co-ordinates 52deg 49min N 0deg 38min E accuracy 0.
It was found on 08-Feb-2026 time unknown at Houghton Park, Norfolk, England
OS Map reference TF7928 accuracy 0, - co-ordinates 52deg 49min N 0deg 39min E accuracy 0.
Finding condition: Freshly dead - within about a Week
Finding circumstances: Leg & Ring Only Found
Extra Information: Photo of leg and a few feathers, Houghton Hall Churchyard, on a gravestone
It was found 244 days after it was ringed, 1 km from the ringing site, direction E.
Diploschistes scruposus
BLS

Awaiting determination

Flavoplaca ruderum
An East Anglian speciality on Church walls
Dorset Lichens
Lichen Medley

Schistidium crassipilum


Candelariella medians
Lichens Maritimes


An aggressive pathogen of lichens
Athelea arachnoidea
BLS


Lecanora campestris plus lichenicolous fungi
Small red fungus sp on an Atlantic Cedar Cone (Cedrus atlantica)


Marbe Screw-moss (Syntrichia papillosa)
Trapelia coarctata
Lemon yellow unkown as yet
Marsham Heath


Cladonia fimbriata

Cladonia floerkeana

Cladonia Sp

Cladonia glauca
Lichen Sp


Tubaria furfuracea

Gorse (Ulex europaeus)
Peziza Sp
Horsey

Cladonia chlorophaea form?
Cladonia foliacea
Cladonia gracilis
Cladonia portentosa and Cladonia chlorophaea form










Cladonia ciliata
C- K- KC- UV-
Dicranum scoparium & Polytrichum juniperinum
Perltigera Sp?, Dicranum scoparium and Polytrichum juniperinum
Peltigera Sp?, Dicranum scoparium & Cladonia portentosa

Slime mold Sp on Cladonia portentosa
Cladonia ramulosa
Waveney Forest


Parmelia sulcata?
Black rizines. Black underside.
A very wet Physconia grisea
Granular soredia on the edges of the lobes.
White rizines seen
Goes grey- brown when dry.

Cladonia Sp




Smooth Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum striatum)
16 peristome teeth

Flat-leaved Scalewort (Radula complanata)
Ramalina farinacea


Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Probably a boundary group made up of a number of trees
Decidedly muscular as Beech often are.
Inosculation or natural grafting. Multiple trees planted very close together can grow into a single, large thick trunked tree.
As they grow together the bark scrapes away and the cambium layers fuse together.
Known as bundle planting
also sometimes called
Planting a 'gemel' (Pair)
17th Century landscape design practice recommend by John Evelyn
Evidence of Bundle Planting from the Dendrochronicle


Crimp Gill (Plicatura crispa)
Crepidotus Sp
Postia Sp?





Flat-top Bogmoss(Sphagnum fallax)






Fringed Bogmoss (Sphagnum fimbriatum)

Cow-horn Bogmoss (Sphagnum cuspidatum)
Blunt-leaved Bogmoss (Sphagnum palustre)
Ulotta Sp

Waved Silk-moss (Plagiothecium undulatum)

Bog Groove-moss (Aulacomnium palistre)

Cape thread-moss (Orthodontium lineare)

Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)
Cladonia coniocrea

Variable-leaved Crestwort (Lophocolea heterophylla)



Capillary Thread-moss (Bryum capillare)
&
from
Bryophilus fungi
Octospora Sp that grows with Ptychostomum (Bryum) capillare.
Not formerly named beyond
Octospora coccinea/axilaris agg
If in Norfolk it would be the third Norfolk record.

x100
1.5mm
x100
A bit confusing this as the leaf above shows no teeth.
But as Julia pointed out (Thank you)
Lf bases are very narrowly decurrent (had to look long and hard on this)
No teeth on the fresh new leaves of the specimen (but found toothed leaves amongst older parts). Smith says: 'margins sometimes entire in plants in dry habitats.', although teeth maybe 'obsolete' in P. rostratum.
Laminal cells porose (not or hardly so in P.rostratum).


Southern Crestwort (Lophocolea semeteres)


Tetraphis Moss (Tetraphis pellucida)


Bristly Haircap (Polytrichum piliferum) - [excurrent nerve] with Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperimum) in the background in the upper of the two images.


x100
2mm
Mueller's Pounchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana)


Leaf insertion runs straight along the line of the stem?
Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)?
Sheringham



Eastern Black Redstart Ist winter ♂︎ (Phoenicurus ochruros form murimus/phoenicuroides/rufiventris)
West Beckham
Church Farm - West Beckham 


Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)

Buds of Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mas) 

Daphne bholua "Jacqueline Postill"

Daphne bholua "Spring Herald"
Bark of Chinese Honeysuckle (Dipelta floribunda)



Galanthus Angelus Early

Galanthus Atkinsii
Galanthus Beington Lordship


Galanthus Byfield Special


Galanthus Dionysius
Galanthus Fly Fishing



Galanthus Franz Joseph

Galanthus Grumpy
Galanthus Magbet


Galanthus Natalie Gunton (not sure name is correct)

Galanthus Ray Cobb


Galanthus Trymlet


Galanthus Lady Lady Beatrix Stanley




Witch-hazel (Hamamelis pallida)
Ivy 'Erecta' (Hedera helix)


Malus Sp
Paper Bark Maple (Acer griseum)

Rhododendron Christmas Cheer

Wintersweet (Chimanthus praecox)

Wire Netting Bush (Corokia Sp)
Horsey Gap





















Grey Seal (Halochoerus grypus) basking in the sunshine.





Cladonia portentosa



Cladonia fimbriata + Cladonia glauca & one other ?
Cladonia Sp?




Cladonia Sp?

Cladonia Sp?

Cladonia foliacea
In the lower image Cetraria aculeata is present in the lower left and right side of the image.


Cladonia gracilis
Still unsure as to whether there is Cladonia ramulosa in amongst this.


Cladonia portentosa
Cladonia ramulosa?
Cladonia glauca
3-4cm Podetia
Cladonia rangiformis?

Cladonia Sp?
Marsham Heath




Cladonia Sp?

Cladonia furcata

Cladonia Sp
Cladonia glauca with inrolled longitudinal split on the podetia
squamulose at the base and sorediate above



Cladonia squamosa?
Cladonia subulata



Cladonia digitata was the original thought but helpful comments from Norfolk's Lichen recorder
suggest this is actually Caldonia polydactyla. Reasoning - the squamules are too incised for digitata.
Interestingly the next three images show an infertile mat of squamules that are rounded and with upturned edges, which is right for
Cladonia digitata


Non fertile mat of Cladonia digitata?
Cladonia Sp
Cladonia chlorophaea form?
Cladonia coniocraea

White Earwort (Diplophyllum albicans)




Cladonia fimbriata

Algae / Lichen ???
Baeomyces rufus


Large White Moss (Leucobryum glaucum)
Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor)
Many thanks for the comments on id from the Norfolk Lichen recorder
Wheatfen











Earthstar Sp
Initial thoughts were Rosy Earthstar (Geastrum rufescens) but the spores were too small. Thus Sp ??

Meadow Coral (Clavulinopsis corniculata)


Resupinate Sp
Winter Heliotrope (Petasites fragrans)
Norwich







Brachycerinus tigrinus
from
British Bugs


Hesperomyces harmoniae (Parasitic fungus) on a Harlequin Ladybid 

Hydropisphaera peziza (small orange blobs on the surface, formerly Nectria peziza) on Dryad's Saddle
Holkham




Dendrographa decolorans


Opegrapha niveoatra
Bleeding Oak Crust (Stereum gausapatum) on Holm Oak (Quercus ilex)


Candelariella vitellina


Melanelixia subaurifera
Physcia adscendens (green when wet)


Parmelia sulcata

Punctelia subrudecta

Peltigera canina


Physcia apolia




Cladonia chlorophaea s. lat
Norfolk Recorder's Comments
The proliferating Cladonia I couldn’t get to anything else but chlorophaea s. lat despite
it looking very different from the other more conventional cupped chlorophaea.
I suspect it is a different species, but needs specialist determination.
After drying this one turned out to be Lecanora conizaeoides (P+ reaction) rather than L symmicta
Evernia prunastri?

Fruiting Xanthoria parietina
Holoplaca suedae
A very particular species that grows on the base of old stems of Shrubby Sea-blite (Sueda vera)


Cladonia rangiformis

Fungus ((Fumopsis galorum)) on Marble Gall (Andricus kollari)
Fruiting Physcia tenella


Showing the C+ red reaction
Trapeliopsis flexuosa


Micarea denigrata on saturated wood


Peltigera hymenina
Fly mines in the thatllus of Peltigera 

Cladonia chlorophaea?
Cladonia foliacea
Cladonia ramulosa

Cladonia glauca
Peltigera didactyla
Hypogymnia physodes




Cladonia ciliata var tenuis



Cliostomum griffithii on Pine






An aberrant variety of Cladonia - much branched and very think limbed.
Chemically it was Cladonia portentosa

To be determined
On saturated wet wood


Porpidia crustulata on wet wood


Tiny Earthstar (Geastrum minimum)
Thanks to JR for confirmation of id, who offered these pointers
A roughened spore sac with a delimited fimbriate peristome
A short thick stem attaching the spore sac to the main fruitbody
Multiple but non-hygroscopic rays with evidence of former thick flesh when fresh
Small size
Habitat of sand dunes


Cladonia ramulosa (pycnidial jelly) showing above the Cladonia foliacea




A mixture of Cladinia ramulosa (pycnidial jelly) & Cladonia gracilis)


Cladonia gracilis

Cladonia crispata
Lepraria incana on saturated pine.



Alyxoria varia + Anisomeridium biforme

Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica)




Pertusaria leoiplaca on Elm (Ulmis procera)


Coppinsiella ulcerosa

Ramalina canariensis
St Benet's Abbey


Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)





Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)













































