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A fungus species new to Gwent has been found on a beech tree at our
Silent Valley Reserve.
Sheila and George Spence from the Gwent Fungus
Group identified it as Hericium cirrhatum.
Sheila said "Although the BMS database and most
reference books say that this species is Red Data List I believe that it
has now been removed from the list in the latest revision, this is
however a great find and I have entered it, and the other species
recorded that day, on the Gwent Fungus Database. Not only is it a first
for Gwent it appears to be a first for the whole of Wales as shown on
the species map on the BMS website".
The fungus was again
found to be fruiting in exactly the same spot on a felled beech tree
in Silent Valley reserve when the Gwent Fungus Group visited the
site on Saturday 22nd September. Not only is this a very unusual
and rare toothed fungus but it has now astounded us by fruiting twice in
one year. We can only surmise that this is due to the strange
weather we have been having recently.
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