1 Geastrum campestre Field Earthstar on left and just opening 1 Geastrum floriforme Daisy Earthstar on the right G London 21.12.17 (21)

            In the above photo are 1 Field Earthstar on the left and 1 Daisy Earthstar on the right with its rays just opening

On 21.12.2017, following a tip off from a friend, I made my 2nd 6 hour (round trip) drive into London to search for another rarely recorded Earthstar species. It was Geastrum campestre,  the Field Earthstar. I saw this firstly at another site in Greater London on 2.12.2017
Searching the BMS FRDBI database (British Mycological Society, The Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland) beforehand, there were only 14 U.K. records from 1926 to 2017 ! 
Under a single mature cedar tree,  I found a mixture of 52 fruiting bodies & eggs ;                  Made up of 8 fresh fruiting bodies (paler coloured), 13 old fruiting bodies but maybe only a month or two old (with the darker brown ray colouration), 10 older fruiting bodies dried with rays curled up around the spore sac, 10 fresh eggs still unopened and 12 just opening from fresh eggs with rays pointing upwards around the spore sac. 
There were also a few fresh specimens of Geastrum floriforme, the Daisy Earthstar.

There are 19 species of Earthstar in the U.K. and this was the 18th species of Earthstar that I have seen during the last 4 months. 
   

Taken on: December 21, 2017

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