Fungi as part of climax community in psammosere

It's always interesting to visit a new habitat and see completely different species.  Last weekend I went to Anglesey and found a number of fungi that I don't usually come across.  They were part of the climax community of the dune system, or psammosere.

Deadly Fibre cap Inocybe erubescens

Pestle puffball or long-stemmed puffball

Handkea excipuliformis

Purple brittlegill 

Russula atropirpurea

Common Puffball

Lycoperdon

Inocybe rimosa

Another type of fibrecap. Rimosa is Latin for cracked.

Devil's Urn, Otherwise known as Urnula craterium

Clearly, back in the day when fungi were named, their wierd and wonderful forms were attributed to magic, or the work of the devil!
This was a good find. Had to go a bit off-piste in Burleigh Woods.  But what a reward tramping through the brambles. This is a monster fungus.  About 10 cm across and a really deep cup.  It's brown and a bit scraggy on the outside. On the inside, which is spore producing, it's black and smooth.

Not the prettiest, but pretty dramatic. And another fabulous Latinised descriptive name!!

Fairy Toadstool Amanita muscaria or Fly Agaric

The Fly Agaric needs little introduction.  It is the toadstool that graces all books about fairies!
It's not so common in real life, and I only ever find them singly. It is widespread and found mostly in birch woodlands .

How do you like your beefsteak (fungus)?

I was sent a picture of a pink fungus.  It looked a bit amorphous, no obvious stem or cap.  Apparently it was growing on an old oak in Bradgate Park.

This was an important clue in it's identification. I looked up the scientific name, Fistulina hepatica.  Hepatica means liver.  Young fungi look more like liver before maturing into the instantly recognisable beefsteak.
To check my theory out, I went up to Jubilee woods where I knew there was a tree with beefsteak fungi. Sure enough, it didn't disappoint. It is amazing how very much like a beefsteak they look. These ones were a bit old, however, and had lost their pink raw meat colour. One had even fallen on the floor.

But further down the same fallen tree, I found the evidence I was looking for: a small, pink amorphous blob of the hepatica type.  So this confirmed the ID of my friend's initial find.