Fungi Friday 🍄

Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄

It’s seriously dry in southern England at the moment, worryingly so, especially if you are 90% water by nature. There simply hasn’t been anything to post about, because I’m not seeing anything fruiting!

I spent a week in Devon in late April and there were no mushrooms at all. The only fungi available came in the form of lichens and these turkey tails (Trametes versicolor) growing in the shade.

They were on a large cherry laurel log (Prunus) in a garden hedge alongside a lane.

I love the blue hue found on some variations of turkey tail. Of course they’re at their best in the autumn when there’s more moisture in the air. The iNaturalist graph shows these are actually the months of the fewest observations for turkey tail.

The pores were a creamy white, which I believe is one of the features of the species.

One cool thing, though, is this mushroom interpretation board my friend John sent me from New Zealand:

Thanks for reading.