Fungi Friday 🍄

photographing fungi in West Sussex

  • Wrinkled peach in south London

    Wrinkled peach in south London

    Dulwich, London, Friday 6th October 2023 Happy Fungi Friday! These pics are fresh out of the woods. Some nice finds today, though everything seems behind on last year. Going to be warm again next week. Wrinkled peach This beautiful little mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus) is one I’ve only seen in person once before. That was in Read more

  • Early October inkcaps

    Early October inkcaps

    We’re still playing the game of summer shrooms in West Sussex. The early autumn arrivals haven’t shown their caps and cups yet. Read more

  • Ganoderma bracket on horse chestnut in London

    Ganoderma bracket on horse chestnut in London

    I passed a horse chestnut tree near London’s South Circular in East Dulwich and found an epic Ganoderma bracket fungus. Read more

  • Less is More: thoughts on foraging by Kerrie Ann Gardner

    Less is More: thoughts on foraging by Kerrie Ann Gardner

    Fungi enthusiasts who have spent time on Twitter in the past few years may know the name of Kerrie Ann Gardner. She went viral for an image of a lichen reaching out ala ET on Twitter (when it was good) and regularly makes an impact with her painted stones on Instagram. Kerrie is based in Read more

  • September stereum

    September stereum

    Dulwich, London, September 2023 This week the heavens have opened. The down payment has been paid on the mushroom season. This is no evidence of mushroom season, but this stereum (probably hairy curtain crust, stereum hirsutum) has taken on a more vibrant guise after the rain. As ever on Fungi Friday, no awards are being Read more

  • There’s a massive mushroom in my house

    There’s a massive mushroom in my house

    Not quite the post I was expecting to make this week, but I found a woodland fungus growing in a dark and poorly heated corner of my house! Read more