{"id":68,"date":"2007-11-18T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:58","slug":"autumn-fruitfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn fruitfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a wet summer (particularly August), autumn has been wonderfully dry and bright, with the best display of autumn colour I can remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/lanchasterrdautumn\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/LanchasterRdAutumn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LanchasterRdAutumn\" title=\"LanchasterRdAutumn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/lanchesterrdcountry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/LanchesterRdCountry-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LanchesterRdCountry\" title=\"LanchesterRdCountry\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trees and countryside on the Lanchester road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/chopwell\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Chopwell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chopwell\" title=\"Chopwell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4681\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Forestry Commission site on Chopwell Wood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.gov.uk\/website\/wildwoods.nsf\/LUWebDocsByKey\/EnglandTyneandWearNoForestChopwellWoodlandPark\">Chopwell wood<\/a> [54 55 N, 1 47 W] is splendid large area of deciduous woodland to the north of Country Durham (actually in the borough of Gateshead).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/fungus1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Fungus1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fungus1\" title=\"Fungus1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/fungus2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Fungus2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fungus2\" title=\"Fungus2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/fungus3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Fungus3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fungus3\" title=\"Fungus3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungi from Chopwell wood.  The first two are not readily identifiable (there are apparently about 4000 species of fungi native to the UK!), but the last is probably an <a title=\"UK safari on the amethyst deceiver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uksafari.com\/amethyst.htm\">Amethyst Deceiver<\/a>.  Although not as threatening as the name suggests, this fungus is apparently not a much of an eater beyond decoration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/birchpolyphore\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/BirchPolyphore-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"BirchPolyphore\" title=\"BirchPolyphore\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4685\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fallen birch polypore (Durham High Wood).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/bracket\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/Bracket-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bracket\" title=\"Bracket\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4686\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bracket fungus (Durham High Wood), possibly a grey polypore (<em>bjerkandera adusta<\/em>)  or a many-zoned polypore (<em>coriolus versicolor<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/shaggyparasol\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ShaggyParasol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ShaggyParasol\" title=\"ShaggyParasol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wikipedia on the shaggy parasol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaggy_parasol\">Shaggy parasol<\/a> (Durham High Wood).  Apparently generally eats well, but can occasionally cause severe gastric upsets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/autumn-fruitfulness\/hawthornberries\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/HawthornBerries-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HawthornBerries\" title=\"HawthornBerries\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4687\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No identification problems here!  <a title=\"Wikipedia on Hawthorn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_Hawthorn\">Hawthorn<\/a> berries near the Science Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a wet summer (particularly August), autumn has been wonderfully dry and bright, with the best display of autumn colour I can remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59,38,66],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-county-durham","tag-fungi","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}