Fungi Friday 🍄

High Weald AONB, West Sussex, July 2023

Here we are in ‘fake fall’ as the Americans call it. Many across the Mediterranean and probably large parts of The World would probably agree – you’d take rain and cloud over hellfire.

The rains are also a joy because they bring shrooms to the temperate world.

Some of the mushrooms that bring real joy are boletes. In late July I found two!

This bay bolete, I think, was growing at the edge of the footpath in moss. I’ve found this to be a prime location for bay boletes, probably due to the ongoing moistness of moss, and the spore highway of the footpath.

But what is this? It is a beautiful thing to say that I don’t know. But I think it’s a cep/pennybun/porcini. A baby bolete.

Thanks for reading.