Fungi Friday 🍄

This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland.

This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo above shows birch woodland, which it forms a mycorrhizal partnership with.

Again with the Pixel 7a the image quality is fantastic. This was a dark spot, which makes it even more impressive. A slug has nibbled the mushroom, but a reminder that the Amanita family contains many spectacularly toxic species.

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