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Holly parachute 🪂
Dulwich, London, Friday 17th November 2023 On a chilly afternoon back in November I was having a work meeting when I noticed a holly leaf resting under a pile of branches and picked it up. I am often on the lookout for parachute mushrooms on the woodland floor in October and November but I’ve only… Read more
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South Downs Way shrooms 🥾
Amberley Downs, West Sussex, 11th November 2023 In November I headed up onto the South Downs in the Arun Valley. Chalk grassland fungi are some of the most spectacular and rare, so it was a good chance to see something not present in the lowland woods. There was plenty of moisture in the area, with… Read more
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Lilac bonnet 🩷
Dulwich, London, 9th November 2023 Happy belated Fungi Friday. Here are some images from south-east London during prime mushroom season. It was bonnet o’clock, as this post demonstrates. Bonnets (Mycena) are a big group of mushrooms and I haven’t done enough work to identify them consistently. Perhaps the fact they’re only really found in the… Read more
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Hundreds of inkcaps in the cemetery
West Sussex, 31st October and 1st November 2023 Two days at a special little cemetery I know. It’s good to be reminded of how rich grassland ecosystems can be, and it’s not just about the woods. Also, I think I snapped three different species of one coral fungus genus here (scroll down). Mushrooms Glistening inkcap… Read more
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Moss-shrooms and ‘larva lamps’
Warnham, West Sussex, October 2023 A couple of hours in a wetland reserve in West Sussex that accrued so many photos it has taken me two months to process them! Therefore be prepared for a comprehensive post this week. The star of the show here is lumpy bracket, about halfway through the post. It was… Read more
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Magpies, hedgehogs and parachutes
Low Weald near Petworth, West Sussex, 21st October 2023 Now there’s a blog title you never thought you’d read. The good thing is that every word of it is true. Anything is possible in the world of fungi. In mid-late October 2023 I visited the deepest, darkest, most ecologically dynamic area of the Sussex Low… Read more
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