Another trip to High Elms on a visit home reminded me that I
hadn’t touched the blog since last time I was here. So here’s a few pics and
with the warm weather back hopefully there’ll be more posts in future.
We deliberately went out to look for Moschatel which,
despite keeping an eagle eye out for it on many woodland walks for the last 3
years or so since I became aware of it, I’d always managed to miss it. It was
comically easy to find here, growing in patches around the base of certain
trees.
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| Finally! Moschatel! |
Also incredibly abundant was Toothwort, growing in many
locations around the wood. There’s something spooky about a plant completely
devoid of greenery and it’s probably why it’s also called the Corpseflower.
Nearby were a bunch of puffballs growing directly on the rotting
wood of a dead Beech tree. I took some photos but fully expected to find out it
was one of a dozen spores-under-a-microscope species. I was pleasantly
surprised to find that puffballs growing in this habit are just one species
(feel free to correct me here!): The Stump Puffball, Lycoperdon pyriforme.
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| Apologies for the blurry photo. It's spring in England - it was gloomy. |
