Fungi Friday 🍄

Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Friday 26th July, 2024

Today I was out and about and spotted a tranche of Amanita mushrooms on a car park verge. This is my first sighting of proper summer shrooms, and I think they’re the grey-spotted Amanitas which are potentially a couple of different sub species.

Photos are with my Pixel 7a, edited in Lightroom.

The reason I found them in the first place was this beacon of a bolete by the pavement. I think it’s similar to lurid bolete one of the colourful ones, while iNaturalist has given an early ID of Neoboletus erythropus, which apparently is an erroneous scientific name?! That is in fact lurid bolete (known scientifically as Neoboletus luridiformis).

The Amanitas then became apparent, though they didn’t look like much at first.

Then I found more.

And more!

And then these two beauties.

I struggle with Amanita ID in some cases so will have to delve into the books and see if anything sticks. I think they’re fairly similar to the grey-spotted amanita complex.

Thanks for reading.