Geastrum ........



Date observed:-    September 1996

Habitat:-          Found in already dried condition at base of hawthorn hedgerow.

Location:-         Tarvin Sands

Scale:-            Sac 15mm diameter maximum.

                   A total of 13 specimens were collected and the site will be 

                   watched with great interest from June 1997 onwards.

                   



Geastrum striatum



Update:-           This specimen found July 3rd 1997 still containing a large

                   amount of brown spores. Identical location. Despite intense 

                   searching since May I still missed the emergence of this 

                   fungus.

                   While the hawthorn hedge was without leaves a large mass of

                   chickweed developed over the location which later died as the

                   hawthorns leaves shut out the light and thus revealing the 

                   fungus. It would seem that the fungus is amost subterranean 

                   until maturity.