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Does anyone know what type of fungi thus is and why it's suddenly started growing between the paving slabs behind our garage ?
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I've got the same, but no idea. Sorry.
someone clever will come along later.
Thanks for answering me so quickly , sorry I didn't check my spelling ????
I'm no expert on fungi - but I think this is one of the jelly fungi, possibly Auricularia auricula-judae , commonly known nowadays as Jelly-ear or Wood-ear fungus
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/10472776/Winter-foraging-for-Wood-Ear-mushrooms.html .
http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/auricularia-auricula-judae.php
Is there some wood somewhere underneath those paving slabs?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There must be. And the Latin name gives a big clue as to the old-fashioned common name.
Yes, it's old name was Jude's Ear - this was because it commonly grows on Elder trees, which is the tree that Judas Iscariot hung himself from according to ancient myth. From that the fungi's name changed to Jew's Ear and that's what it's been known as for a long time - thankfully the new names are not going to insult anyone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ah! I didn't know about the Jude/Judas connection. Another piece of the jigsaw falls into place. The things you learn here, eh?
Wow, thanks everyone, I'm amazed at the information regarding this fungi how interesting, I've never heard or seen anything like this before.
There isn't any wood around the area as far as I can see but I will certainly investigate further this weekend.
thanks again I'll let you know the outcome.
I was going to ask about something I found today which looked like dark green seaweed? I found it around the veg patch. Little clumps that looked (and felt) as if they'd arrived from the sea? Would they have been fungus too?
Possibly a liverwort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I took a look at images for liverwort and thought "no, mine was a lot wetter looking than those". Then I remembered it was raining heavily this morning when I found it!! Thanks Dove.