Sunday Fungi: Silver Bells and Cockle Shells

Posted on March 10, 2019 by crispina kemp

Cockle Shells

[Probably] Cockleshells: 22 November 2017

When I first took this photo (way back in November 2017) I thought this wonderfully clustered fungus was an Oyster or Oysterling of sorts. But on further delving into books, I’d say its a Cockleshell. But Oyster or Cocklshell, it’s still a beautiful fungus.

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32 Responses to Sunday Fungi: Silver Bells and Cockle Shells

  1. Ramyani Bhattacharya says:
    March 10, 2019 at 1:05 pm

    Oh my goodness! This looks divine! 😍

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  2. Dale says:
    March 10, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    It has a ruffled dress!

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    • crimsonprose says:
      March 22, 2019 at 4:33 pm

      I thank you for the nudge to check my own Span-Can. Found three that don’t belong there, including this one. But … can you refresh my memory: What has a ruffled dress? 🙂

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      • Dale says:
        March 22, 2019 at 5:48 pm

        Ha ha ha!
        Sneaky WP gremlins at work.
        Look at your picture 😉

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 22, 2019 at 5:53 pm

        Um … what? Perhaps my brain has slipped down my spine. Which or what picture?

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      • Dale says:
        March 22, 2019 at 6:05 pm

        Just click on my response to you Sunday Fungi: Silver Bells and Cockle Shells!

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 22, 2019 at 6:09 pm

        Thank you for helping me retrieve my brain. 🙂 Gosh, it had slipped a fair way down!

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      • Dale says:
        March 22, 2019 at 6:12 pm

        You do know you just have to click on my response and then see your title which you can click on 😉
        I have exchange with a fellow blogger where I have to go back and see what he was responding to! Course, we are a tad nuts and go overboard occasionally…

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 22, 2019 at 6:26 pm

        My brain went for a walk; it doesn’t really feel like it’s returned. If I didn’t know better I’d say I’ve taken something … illegal. Maybe someone slipped something in the yoghurt. Truly, I feel … vague. But anyway, yea, normally I’d have done that. But I just looked and .. nah, what’s she on about? Lost on me. I apolgise. I’ll be sharper tomorrow. 🙂

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      • Dale says:
        March 22, 2019 at 7:09 pm

        Ha ha ha! Sad to not be take advantage of that certain something… illegal 😉
        All jokes aside, that has happened to me: to feel vague.
        Please, no apologies necessary.

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 22, 2019 at 7:44 pm

        That’s okay then. Right, watch a DVD. John Malkovich supposedly playing Poirot, but it’ll be himself as usual. 🙂

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      • Dale says:
        March 22, 2019 at 8:39 pm

        Right. I shall take advantage of my mother’s invite for supper with my two sisters. Which reminds me, she asked for a couple of ingredients. So much for my nap… Got carried away reading, commenting, and not writing, blogs…

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 23, 2019 at 7:12 am

        Was it a good evening with your sisters and mother?
        The movie weren’t bad. It had been made for TV (BBC) and come in three parts, and lasted 3 hours. And I had wanted an early night! Towards the end I forgot it was John Malkovich as he seemed to slip into character. Strange.

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      • Dale says:
        March 23, 2019 at 7:14 am

        It was indeed! Way overdue so doubly nice.
        Well there ya go! Ye is little faith!! He fooled you

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      • crimsonprose says:
        March 23, 2019 at 7:16 am

        Yea. Towards the end. That’s when things started to get a bit. Maybe that’s himself under pressure. 🙂
        And now, gotta go. Food to prep, water bottles to fill, map to check etc … off into the woods today, after a double bus ride.

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  3. Violet Lentz says:
    March 10, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    I knew they looked hungry and your comment above said their tongues are full of half digested leaves…. or something like that.

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  5. Bobby Fairfield says:
    March 10, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    The beauty and worth of fungi is so often underrated I appreciate your promotion of their value both aesthetic and life benefic.

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    • crimsonprose says:
      March 11, 2019 at 6:36 am

      I thank you. And were I more knowledgeable I would say more. But I won’t encourage folk to gather and use what can too easily be misidentied. Yet what I will promote is their vital role in supporting life on earth. 🙂

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