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Salthouse Heath

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-04-01T05:22:34+01:00

Oak (Quercus robur)

Melanelixia subarifera also Melanelixia subaurifera

Evernia prunastri

Ramalina farinacea

Black Witches' Butter (Exidia glandulosa)

Flavoparmelia soredians?

Punctelia jeckeri?

Lecidella eleochroma

Parmatrema perlatum with marginal cilia K+ yellow ?

Punctelia jeckeri?

Sp?

Melanelixia subaurifera

Lecanora expallens

?

? wth Physcia adscendens

Phylyctis argena?

Diploica canescens

Lecidella eleochroma

Lepraria Sp?

Phaeophyscia orbicularis

Physcia adscendens

Physcia adscendens with Hammered Shield Lichen (Parmelia sulcata)

Crisped Pincushion (Ulotta crispa)

Xanthoria parietina

Lecanra hybocarpa, Lecidella eleochroma (A good example as it clearly shows the black apothecia with excluded margins), & an Arthonia Sp

Ramalina fastigiata

Sustead

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-04-01T05:00:30+01:00

Lesser Celandine (Ficia verna)

Cheilosia pagana

Eristalis Sp

Fly Sp

The Narboroughs

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-30T07:24:36+01:00

The Narboroughs
just as it was
over a hundred & more years ago

Hair Point x 200 showing teeth

Intermediate Screw-moss (Syntricha intermedia) with White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)

x 100

Fox-tail Feather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum)

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

Hypotrachyna revoluta?

LichenSp ? on the Blackthorn Twigs

LichenSp

Opegrapha Sp

Capillary Thread-moss (Bryum capillare), Lesser Bird's-claw Beard-moss (Streblotrichum comvolutum) & Crimson-tuber Thread-moss (Bryum rubens)

x 100

x 200

A very odd Amblystegium serpens

Bonfire-moss (Funaria hygrometrica)

Schreber's Forklet-moss (Dicranella schreberiana) with Bryum capillare & Bryum dichotomum

Bicoloured Bryum (Bryum dichotomum)

Squash of the male plant of Capillary Thread-moss showing the paraphyses and the antheridia

The antheridal head of the male plant with a flower-like inflorescence at the tip of the shoot.
This acts as a form of splash cup , splashing the sperm laden water droplets when hit by rain
In the images below you can see the antheridia {male gametangia} (blue green flask shaped structure with a host of paraphyses providing protection.

Swan's neck Thyme Moss (Mnium hornum)

Slender Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum tenellum)

Creeping Feather-moss (Amblystegium serpens)

Great Scented Liverwort (Concephalum conicum)

Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)

Marsh Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium ellipticum)

1.7mm long

Showy Feather-moss (Oxyrrhynchium speciosum)?

Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia)

Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)

x 100

Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

Below an image of very small leaved, tighly packed example of the same species.

x 100

Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum)

Dwarf feather-moss (Rynchostegiella pumila)

Confirmed by JM - Costa without extensin on the dorsal side

Crisped Fork-moss (Dicranum bonjeanii)?

Three or four trees planted so close together they form a a multistemmed boundary marker

Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

A line of Beech (Fagus sylvatica) forming a marker boundary between parishes we think.

Necton

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-30T07:09:33+01:00

Pseudovernia furfuracea

Parmelia sulcata

West Pottergate

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-28T17:44:49+00:00

It was a bit cold so only 1♀︎ & 2 ♂︎s

Grey-backed Mining Bee (Andrena vaga)

Alderford Common

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-25T18:41:54+00:00

Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)

Bird Cherry (Prunus padus)

Dog's mercury ( Mercurialis perennis)

Hazel (Corylus avellana)

Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius)

Lichen Sp

Mine on bramble leaves. This is likely to be Golden Pygmy Moth (Stigmella aurella)

Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor)

Ulotta Sp (dry)

The dried old capsules taper below the capsule mouth making this Crisped Pincushion (Ulotta crispa)

Ulotta Sp (wet)

As you can see in the image above it would be impossible to identify this specimen when wet as the shape of the capsule is indistinct.

Hanworth

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-23T17:46:19+00:00

Spider Sp

Gwynne's Mining Bee ♂︎ (Andrena bicolor)

Fly Sp

Ichneumon Sp

and something I was given a while ago.

A fungus that lives on conifer resin

Zythia resinae

Superbly described by Jeremy Bartlett

Zythia resinae AKA Sarea resinae

Hanworth

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-19T19:00:11+00:00

Little Plumstead Garden

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-19T18:56:55+00:00

Corydalis Sp?

Scrophularia vernalis

Tulip Sp?

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)

Muscari Mountain Lady

Euphorbia myrsinites

Hanworth

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-18T17:02:09+00:00

Early Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus nigricornis)

Seven Spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata)

Strumpshaw Fen

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-16T10:11:00+00:00

Clark's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)

All males - even males on males - no females or associated Nomads visible today

Elfcup Sp

Hymenoscyphus vernus

Hazel Bracket (Skeletocutis semipileata)

From AW

Asteroma robergei with minute pycnidia seated on a mat of radiating brown hyphae

Mollisia Sp?

Snowy Disco (Lachnum virgineum)

Common Mazegill (Datronia mollis)

Mollisia Sp

Mollisia cinerea

Small black balls (Berlesiella nigerrima) on Birch Woodwart (Jackrogersella multiformis) . Also a small red fungus Cosmospora annulohypoxyli

Arcyria ferruginea?

Owl Midge Sp (Drain Fly, Sewer Fly , Moth Fly, Filter Fly), of which there are 99 species in the UK

Leaf 6mm

x40
Leaf bases running down into the stem

Uniformly toothed all around the edge of the leaf

cells in diagonal rows

Tall Thyme-moss (Plagiomnium elatum)

x200

x400

Fungus (Polycephalomyces tomentosum) growing on a Slime Mold (Trichia facoginea)

Sweet White Violet (Viola odorata alba)

Red-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lapidarius)

Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa

Colletotrichum samarum on Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) Key

Common Tree Chernes (Chernes cimicoides)

Dotty Thyme-moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)

with the liverwort

Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)

A creamy yellow hymenium became more obvious as they opened. Short stalked, growing on Salix.

The last image shows how they change colour (reddish, pink, orange) as they age

Lachnum pudibundum

Diaporthe pardolata on Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)

Tremella versicolor on Peniophera

Fungus Sp

Lophiostoma semiliberum on Reed (Phragmites australis)

Kelling Heath

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-11T17:16:15+00:00

Adder (Viera beris)

Beeston Common

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-11T17:15:49+00:00

Frog Rana temporrario)

Wheatfen

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-10T16:53:34+00:00

♀︎

♂︎

♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♂︎&♀︎

♀︎

Clarke's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)

Thwaite Common

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-09T09:41:03+00:00

Parmelia sulcata

Punctelia jeckeri

Phaeophyscia orbicularis

Physcia aipolia

Erythricium auratiacum (Macrchandiomyces aurantiacus)

Small pale orange sclerota or bulbils

on Physcia adscendens

Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria violacea)

Blickling

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-05T06:17:52+00:00

Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Mollisia ligni

?

Common Tar Crust (Diatrype stigma)

X400

Spore 29.88 µm x 9.96 µm

from AW

The Nectria found on Ivy close to the start was Thyronectria sinopic

Leptotrochila ranunculi on Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)

Small black ascos on the leaf

Lichen Sp

Unusually with leaf gemmae

Cylindric Beard-moss (Didymodon insulanus)

Cape thread-moss (Orthdontium lineare)

Cladonia Sp

Larvae?

From JE

These are Thrips, subfamily Phlaeothripidae, which mostly feed on fungi. Can be identified by the larvae but only by experienced observers.

Fly Sp

Slime Mold Sp

From AW

The shiney black slime mold with orange spores was Metatrichia floriformis

Slime Mold Sp

Arcyria ferruginea?

Common Tar Crust (Diatrype stigma) on Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

SPider Sp & Mite Sp

Ochre Spreading Tooth (Stecherinum ochraceum)

Badhamis untricularis

Cinnamon Bracket (Hapilopilus nidulans)

Cacumisporium capitulatum

Spore 23 x 4 µm

Spore 2 x 1.5 µm

From AW

The 'Tequila sunrise' resupinate was Tomentella crinalis

X 200

Spore 38.35 µm x 17.7 µm

From AW

The pale synnemata on the rotten wood were Phaeoisaria clematidis - this is meant to be common according to Ellis & Ellis, but there is only one record on the Mycota dating back to 1946
Synnamata - specilaized, upright asexual reproducitve structures produced by certain fungi where numerous conidiohores fuse to form a stalk-like, often branched, bundle.
This can be clearly seen in the images above.

Phaeoisaria clematidis

Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata) fruiting

Coprinellus (tulosesus) impatiens

Nectria Sp

Craterium minutum

Slime Mold Sp

Stemonitis Sp

Hypoxylon minutum

Ganoderma Sp

from AC
with a slighly zoned top - Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma aplanatum)

Slime Mold Sp

Elfcup Sp (Sarcoscypha Sp)

From TL
On balance: esp width of spores

Scarlet Elfcup (Sacroscypha austriaca)

Nectria Sp on King Alfred's Cakes (Daldinia)

Wolf's Milk (Lycogala Sp)

From TL

Lycogala terrestre

The small red fungi in the bottom right of this image are Cosmospora uceline

Brittle Cinder (Kretzchmaria deusta)

Brittle Cinder Fungus

Bartlett Tree Experts

X 40

X 100

Enlarged to show how the mid-leaf scales scarcely overlap.

Thus

Woodsy Silk-moss (Plagiothecium nemorale)

Beech Mast Fungus (Xylaria carpophila)

Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides)

You can see the line of border cells to the edge of the leaf, which is characteristic of this species.

The other common species does not have this feature and is often much larger.

Lichenicolous Fungi Unguiculariopsis thallophila on Lecanora hybocarpa.

From
Dorset Nature

Small feathery fungus (Volutella ciliata) on Beech mast (Fagus sylvatica)

Pyrenopeziza digitalina on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) stem

Overstrand

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-03T14:43:59+00:00

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)

Dersingham Fen

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-03-01T19:18:57+00:00

Fringed Bog-moss (Sphagnum fimbriatum)

Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens)

Mueller's Pouchwort (Calypogeia muelleriana)

Common Feather-moss (Kindbergia prologa)

River Feather-moss (Brachythecium rivulare)

Common Pouchwort (Calypogeia fissa)

Juniper Haircap-moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) Male Plants

Stem Leaf

x200

0.6mm

Branch Leaf

x200

1.0mm

Compact bog-moss (Sphagnum compactum) ?

Red-stemmed feather-moss (Pleurozium schreberi)

Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoliopsis minutissima)

Smooth Bristle-moss (Lewinskya striata)

Slender Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum tenellum)

Ulotta Sp

5mm

X40

X100

Calypogeia arguta

x40

x100

Two-horned Pincerwort (Cephalozia bicuspidata)

x100

Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)

x40

4.5mm

Even Scalewort (Radula complanata)

x40

Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

X 100

2mm

Swartz's feather-moss (Oxyrrhynchium hians)

Cladonia floerkeana

Nestled amongst the Heath Star-moss (Campylopus introflexus) among the Cladonia podetia a small green liverwort can just about be seen.

Showing almost ripe antheridia on a male shoot

X200

Common Threadwort (Cephaloziella divaricata)

Drunmsticks (Aulocomnium andodrogynum)

Holkham

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-26T07:09:21+00:00

Peltigera membranacea

Peltigera hymenina

Syntrichia ruralis

Cladonia Sp?

Cladonia furcata

Cladonia ciliata var ciliata

Rue-leaved Saxifrage (Saxifrage tridactylytes)

Cetraria aculeata

Spurge Laurel (Daphne laureola)

Felbrigg

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-24T17:08:09+00:00

Elegant Silk-moss (Pseudotaxyphyllum elegans) & (Calypogeia fissa)

Deeply bilobed under leaves of Calypogeia fissa

The extra lobe on the underleaf visible above

x 200

Gemmae present on shoot tips

Some notches present a leaf apices

Common Pouchwort Calypogeia fissa)

A rather excellent liitle ground beetle with a characteristically course ridges on the head.

Crawling about on the Calypogeia

Notiophilus biguttatus

Mirid Bug

Pinalitus cervinus

Grateful thanks to DA for insect ids above

After a close encounter with a potting

this one played dead for fifteen minutes before

it got up and walked off in the image below.

Mosses
Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum) & Silky Forkelt-moss (Dicronella heteromalla)

Moss

Elegant Silk-moss (Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans) with the tassles

Moss
Common Feather-moss (Kindbergia prolonga)

on Bank Haircap (Polytrichum formosum)

On Bank Haircap (Polytrichum formosum)

A male Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) clambering amongst Mosses & Liverworts

Early-flowering Borage (Tracheystermon orientalis)

Ichneumon Sp?

Wolterton

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-22T19:13:37+00:00

Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis)

Cape Thread-moss (Orhtodontium lineare)

The hairs on the surface of the Elfcup are matted but not coiled

Thus

But not a foolproof method.
T
The fact that the hairs are septate contribute to a more confirmed id.

Ruby Elf Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)

Fly Sp

Spider Sp

Lecanactis abietina

Kneiff's Feather-moss (Leptodictyum riparum)

Greet Scented Liverwort (Conocephalum conicum)

Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with Metzgeria furcata & Metzgeria violacea & Frullania dilatata

Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)

?

Lichen Sp

Pertussaria Sp?

Pertussaria pertusa

By there is a pink discolouration on some of the warts

This one doesn't have the same number of black spots on each wart and in many cases no obvious ones at all

Sp??

Physconia grisea

Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphaea heteromalla)

Wavy Beard-moss (Didymodon sinuosus)

Thickpoint Grimia (Schistidium crassipilum)

Cape Thread-moss (Orthodontium lineare)

X100

x200

Lesser Pocket-moss (Fissidens bryoides var bryoides)

Bordered leaves about 1mm long.

Capsules held vertically

Supine Plait-moss (Hypnum cupressiforme var resupinatum)

Leaves most definitely pointing upwards

Dusky Beard-moss (Didymodon luridus)

Red Beard-moss (Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum)

Dwarf feather-moss (Microeurhyncium pumilum)

Felbrigg

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-21T18:59:31+00:00

Baeomyces rufus

Octotemnus glabriculus attacked by Beauveria bassiana

Grateful thanks to SL for ids

Coniocarpon cinnabarinum

BLS

Exidia plana

Ganoderma

Probably Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)

Fruitng Jamesiella anastomosans

Jelly Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae)

Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbosa)

Cosmospora arxii on Beech Woodwart (Hypoxylon fragiforme)

Pine Cone Cap (Strobilurus tenacellus)

Conifer Disco (Lachnellula subtilissima) on Pine

Heterobasidion annosum

Grateful thanks to Norfolk Lichen recorder for the image above.

Graphis inustuloides

BLS

Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea)

Arcerya denudata

?

Slime Mold plasmodium

Female Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis)

Sheet Weaver Spider

Drapetiscus socialis

Spring Pin (Cudoniella clavus)

Early-flowering Borage Tracheystemon orientalis

Jeremy's Blog Post

Ulotta crispa/bruchii

Winter Polypore (Polyporus brumalis)

Slug Sp

Lichenicolous Fungi on Physcia adscendens

Lichenicolous Fungi on Physcia tenella

Revolute Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium revolutum)

X400

Spores 10 µm x 5 µm

Neonectria coccinea

A fungal pathogen of Beech (Fagus sylvatica), which in severe cases can kill the tree.

Neonectria coccinea: The Red Fungus Threatening Beech Trees

from Paul's Back Garden Safari

Yellow Fungus

From SW

I have keyed this out in Ellis & Ellis and arrived at
Mariannaea elegans
Colonies effuse, whitish to pale golden brown. Conidiophores hyaline, 200-750 x 10-14, vertically branched at the apex.
Conidia formed in slipped chains or slimy heads, hyaline, fusiform or angular, 4-6 x 2-3.5. On wood and bark.
From Plant Parasites of Europe

An original line drawing from 1838
A C J Corda, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Beech Mast Candlesuff (Xylaria carpophila)

Tiny branchlets

X100

Elegant Silk-moss (Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans)

There are clusters of small branchlets visible on some of the shoots, characteristic of this species.

Felbrigg

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-17T09:39:01+00:00

Cladonia Sp ( Coniocrea?)

Alga SP

White Brain (Exidia thuretiana)

Fly Sp

Mollisia Sp?

Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata)

Creeping Fingerwort (Lepidozia reptans

Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

Aloe Haircap (Poganatum aloides)

Rowan Buds (Sorbus aucuparia)

Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa)

Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor)

Silky Forklet-moss (Dicronella heteromalla)

Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum)

Winterton

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-13T08:50:16+00:00

Circinaria contorta

Irish Lichens

Cladonia mitis

BLS

Cladonia Sp?

Cladonia crispata var?

UV+ White

35- 40 mm high

BLS

Cladonia crispata var. crispata

Cladonia crispata var. cetrariformis

Cladonia diversa

BLS

Cladonia subulata

BLS

Cladonia foliacea

BLS

BLS

Cladonia furcata subsp. furcata

Cladonia furcata subsp. subrangiformis

Another rather rare sp in this part of the world

BLS

Cladonia uncialis subsp uncialis

Possibly Cladonia uncialis subsp. biuncialis

seems to have a different morphology

It is also UV + & KC + Yellow

Cladonia uncialis subsp. biuncialis

Cladonia Sp in amongst Cladonia foliacea

Evernia prunastri

The lower image shows the rarer lighter/white coloured version of this species

Cetraria aculaeata

Horsey

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-13T07:33:08+00:00

Cladonia cornuta

A heathtail. Robust podetia half corticate and half sorediate , pointed, unbranched. The upper half grey green to grey white & densely farinose sorediate

Chemically negative except for Pd + red

Rare in our part of the world.
Has also recently been found on Cawston Heath as well

BLS

Cladonia ciliata var tenuis

Podetia tips point largely in the same downward direction with a purplish colour.

Chemistry only Pd + red

BLS

Cladonia rangiferina

Very much in an isolated population that seems to be growing slowly.

A bulky lichen with recurved branches and a more visible felted cortex than other reindeer type lichen, which can be clearly seen in the images above.

Also K+ Yellow

Cladonia cervicornis

This species has tiered cups. Generally but not exclusively one tier. Can lead to the confusion with Cladonia verticillata which is many tiered.

The key difference is the longer more incised lobes of the basal squamules in Cladonia cervicrnis, which can be seen in the images above.

Hypogymnia physodes

Corticifraga fuckellii

Hawksworthiana peltigericola

Nectriopsis lecanodes

Three Species of lichenicolous fungi found on Peltigera hymenina

BLS

Wheatfen

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-10T17:04:03+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-09T06:29:22+00:00

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

Julia also found this snippet

'There's always been a deer park at Houghton Hall, dating back to the innovative landscaping efforts of Charles Bridgeman in the early 18th century.
Bridgeman's departure from formal design principles ushered in a more natural, organic style that integrated elements of the surrounding wilderness.
Some of the trees he planted still thrive today, providing both beauty and sustenance for the park's inhabitants.'

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-07T17:10:55+00:00

Cladonia fimbriata

Cladonia floerkeana

Cladonia Sp

Cladonia glauca

Lichen Sp

Tubaria furfuracea

Gorse (Ulex europaeus)

Peziza Sp

Horsey

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-02T15:18:35+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-02-01T20:54:29+00:00

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) in amongst Tetraphis Moss (Tetraphis pellucida)

Leaf insertion runs straight along the line of the stem?

Forcipated Pincerwort (Cephalozia connivens)?

Felbrigg

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-28T15:53:23+00:00

Fly Sp

Snow Flea ♂︎ (Boreus hyemalis)

Cladinia ochrochlora?

Sheringham

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-28T15:49:41+00:00

Eastern Black Redstart Ist winter ♂︎ (Phoenicurus ochruros form murimus/phoenicuroides/rufiventris)

West Beckham

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-26T06:25:04+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-24T21:27:49+00:00

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?

Winterton

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-24T21:19:29+00:00

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Marsham Heath

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-19T10:00:40+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-13T18:19:34+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-11T16:17:15+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-10T16:16:53+00:00

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

pebble@suckedslant.uk — 2026-01-08T16:43:06+00:00

Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)