Natural History

Fungi and Lichens in Blenheim Park

Impressively lichened west-facing trunk of Beech tree, Blenheim Park
Wonderfully geographic lichened surface, close-up
Geographic … Oxfordshire Map in Woodstock Museum … does look much the same, doesn’t it?

Roots of a Beech tree in the park, straight from Middle-earth
Waxcap! Probably the Butter Waxcap, Hygrocybe ceracea: quite a few of them in a quiet corner among the grass
A huge Artist’s Bracket, Ganoderma applanatum, on Beech, its preferred host
Perhaps Rootlet Brittlestem, Psathyrella microrhiza