Yellow Stagshorn

The unmistakable branching jelly fungus commonly known as Yellow Stagshorn (Calocera viscosa) - although when its dry its usually not yellow at all but orange ..... It always grows on rotting coniferous wood.

I did find some 'Small Stagshorn' (Calocera cornea) growing on a fallen hornbeam trunk. It looks similar but is er... smaller and doesn't branch at the ends. Unfortunately the spaniel was getting impatient so I didn't get a decent photograph. I shall return to find it another day (that's the fungus not the spaniel).