According to their DNA, Fungi are apparently closer to animals than plants… despite the fact that they stay in one place and don’t move around like other animals do, they aren’t plants at all! They apparently can live anywhere in the world, even what you might think are the most inhospitable places such as deserts and even Antarctica.
I didn’t realise that there is a difference between fungi with a small ‘f’ and Fungi with a capital ‘F’; the small ‘f’ fungi is just an all-purpose term for things which look somewhat alike and seem somewhat alike such as mould, slime moulds (sound yukky) yeasts and mushrooms; perhaps the most famous, or infamous is phytophthora infestans which causes potato blight, the cause of the awful Famine in Ireland, the Gorta Mór. However, Fungi with a capital letter is different and doesn’t include the slime moulds!
These were growing near an oak tree
These strange yellow stems were just there in the grass… I don’t know if they originally had caps, but there were none to be seen!
These grew in great mounds as you can see from my featured picture; I don’t know if there was a tree stump underneath, I didn’t investigate!
Lois Elsden 
I used to pick mushrooms with an old friend years ago and he told me that when I boiled them to put a silver coin in the water with them. If the coin turned black then throw them away because they were poisonous. I still have that lucky coin because it never turned color and I am here to tell the story. Have a cure for warts using a coin if you want to hear it.
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I’ve heard of a cure for warts using a piece of raw meat… but a silver coin? Go on, share it!!
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Our dimes or ten cent pieces used to be silver years ago and you had to have a new shiny one for the cure. First get dressed to go for a walk on a busy street, not in winter of course. Next rub the dime on as much of your wart as you can and while walking throw the dime over your shoulder and don’t look back. The next day the wart will be gone. Where did it go? The person who spotted the dime and picked it up now has a wart. Hopefully not a friend or relative. Works like a charm probably cause it is one. P.S. Don’t walk under a ladder on the way home.
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If ever I get a wart I’ll remember that!! Now black cats… are they unlucky or lucky if they cross your path? I reckon they are lucky!
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Should have thrown my ex wife over my shoulder now I think about it. Got lucky with the latest one so I must be charmed!
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A fascinating and sinister life form
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