"TheScullster" wrote in message
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"Spider" wrote

Try googling on "orange peel fungus". It is a fungus associated with
bare ground - clay especially. If it's not that, is it possible you
could post a pic so we could get a better idea?

Thanks Spider
The bare clay ground fits sure enough.
The stuff I'm seeing looks like the bits in the bottom right of this
pictu
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/na...ts.asp?pic=332
although it's very flat to the ground.
There's masses of it, but none is larger than 12mm diameter and it is all
flat with no curling or cupping.
Maybe that means it's a different species altogether!
Does this fly in on the wind, or are the spores coming from something in
the ground like my compost?

Phil

Hi Phil,

It can appear in both small and large masses, and even eventually flattened,
so it would still fit. Apart from bare, clayey soil it can also appear in
grassland or where grass has grown; also in woodland. In the northern USA,
I believe it can appear where the redwood tree has grown. Nothing I have
read tells me that it is actually specific to any of these things. However,
many years ago, following the death of a hybrid cupressus hedge, I saw many
similar fungi, so perhaps there is a woody connection ... but this anecdotal
information is hardly a certainty. We may never know.

Spider