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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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Churchyard earthtongues 🖤
South Downs Way, West Sussex, November 2023 Here’s a new sighting for me! I don’t want to identify the churchyard I visited, but it was along the South Downs Way in West Sussex. I would say that most churchyards in the South Downs will have good fungal diversity, so just go for it! I spotted Read more
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A fly agaric Christmas & New Year 🍄
From everyone at FungiFriday.co.uk (me), hoping you have the chance to think about mushrooms over the holiday period. Please enjoy these (mostly German) fly agaric-focused Christmas and New Year’s cards: Viel glück! 🍄 Read more
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