Chagford, Dartmoor, Devon, November 2025
Continuing the photo blogs from my autumn 2025 visit to Dartmoor National Park, here are a blend of camera and phone photos of what was fruiting in Chagford churchyard.
First up is this butter waxcap, a lovely yellow beacon among the leaves.
Not a great pic, but this is an earthtongue. I only ever really see earthtongues in old churchyards.
How interesting is this one? A white fungus growing on the decaying aril (fruit) of a yew tree. I don’t know what the species is.
These phone pics are of a waxcap, but I’m not sure of the species as the colour lacks the red of scarlet or crimson waxcap.
I think these are probably scarlet waxcap as they’re too small for crimson waxcap. The red is delicious.
Meadow waxcap, a mushroom that is quite variable in size. The stipe is always quite robust.
I don’t know what this mushroom is, but my guess is bald knight.
A lichenised map of the world on stone.
We have two lichens bunched together here, on the right hand side is dotted ribbon lichen.
On another fallen twig, yet more dotted ribbon lichen.
A common enough species in Devon, also in more damp parts of Sussex actually – a dog lichen (Peltigera).
Ah, one of the many lovely common lichens I am unable to identify at this stage in my life. iNaturalist suggests this is a rim lichen.
Chewing gum lichen (Protoblastenia rupestris) is a new one for me, which I am able to identify thanks to the iNaturalist community. From memory this was growing on one of the stones alongside the path.
This is probably black-eyed lichen (ouch), according to iNaturalist.
Thanks for reading. Below are my other Dartmoor 2025 blogs:
Fungi Friday 🍄 
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