APHOTOFUNGI

An online educational resource dedicated to the photography of fungi;
mushrooms, toadstools, brackets, cups, plant diseases etc., found
in South-West England, especially Devon and Cornwall, by David Fenwick.

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Marine sac fungi
Corollospora maritima
- ascomata shipworm valve 1

Marine sac fungi
Corollospora maritima
- ascomata shipworm valve 2

Marine sac fungi
Corollospora maritima
- ascospores / x400 -1

Images of species taken at home under the microscope. The species was found on 2-3mm shipworm valves of Psiloteredo megotara as well as the wood the shipworms were boring into. Shipworms are a wood boring bivalve and can often be found within timber and driftwood that has been cast up on the shore.

The shipworms and fungus was found on a 30mm diameter piece of plywood washed up at Sennen Cove, Penwith, Cornwall. 02.11.12.

The asexual fungi Trichocladium achrasporum and Trichocladium lignicola were also found on the surface of the wood.

Here I have to thank Professor Gareth Jones for his assistance in identifying all the species of marine fungi found on the plywood sample.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help

people find and identify it. The difference between species is rarely obvious, many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.