Fungi Friday 🍄

Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄

The weather has felt a little more autumnal in recent days. So I wasn’t surprised to see one of the summer boletes, despite their hard location.

What a mess eh? You can see the pores here on the underside of the gap, a key feature of bolete and similar fungi.

The mushrooms were growing from bitumen against a wall on a footpath between old houses.

In Sussex this kind of footpath is known as a ‘twitten’, usually a made-path between dwellings.

They’re not somewhere I usually go to seek out fungi but you never know where the mushrooms will crop up next. Fungi are found everywhere.

This species has been identified on iNaturalist as sepia bolete (Xerocomellus porosporus).

I actually found a mushroom at the start of the twitten in a more open location. I didn’t disturb the fungus to look at the gills as I was in a bit of a rush and I don’t love removing mushrooms in streets because it may stop other people from enjoying their sighting.

I am confident this is another bolete though probably a different species because it doesn’t have the cracked cap pattern on top.

Once again it shows how little micro habitats can develop in the hardest locations, literally.

As ever, views are welcome in the comments.

Thanks for reading.