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Road verge agaricus 🛣️
It was nice to find these road verge field mushrooms whilst out on an evening walk around the town. Read more
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Mystery brittlegill in the cemetery 🔴
West Sussex, Friday 20th October 2023 There’s a small cemetery I can walk to from home that has been quite good for mushrooms during previous autumn visits. In the past I’ve seen a number of different waxcaps, goblets, parasols and blewits. Ironically I once saw a deathcap growing from a grave! On this occasion there… Read more
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Fly agaric proliferating 🍄
Happy Fungi Friday! I nipped over to my local woodland on Saturday 14th October to try and catch the mushroom boom. It was quite dark by the time I got there but still worth it. My first sighting was this beautiful blusher at the side of the track, shining in the lowering light. They are… Read more
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Ganoderma on Streatham Common
Have you ever seen a fungus fell a tree so cleanly? Not likely, because this was a chainsaw job! Streatham Common is part of London’s historic Great North Wood, a once extensive landscape of ancient woods and commons. It’s good for fungi and the management is very sensitive, as you can see here. This is… Read more
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Boletes at the library 📚
I have been keeping an eye on the woodchip outside my local library for a few months now. That focus has paid off handsomely. Read more
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Mother Mycelium – the mushrooms of Greece 🇬🇷
This YouTube video by Planet Fungi (Australian makers of great fungi videos) about the Greek Mushroom Society’s president George Konstantinidis is an excellent watch. There are some interesting points about foraging, how pulling shrooms rather than cutting them can be better for the mycelium, and how popular fungi are now in parts of Greece. Thanks… Read more
Fungi Friday 🍄 