Lost and found

Super excited this morning to find this beautiful example of Podscypha multizonata  growing under a veteran oak tree. Its exciting because this species is on the list of "Lost and Found Fungi" at Kew gardens. There are about 15,000 species of fungi in Britain, some have not been recorded for more than fifty years and may potentially be extinct or lost. The problem is that no-one knows which species are genuinely extinct and which are just under-recorded.  The Lost and Found Fungi project is an effort to unpick the issue.