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The biggest penny bun I’ve seen
In mid-September I was out and about one morning to witness a big ol’ bolete and hundreds of fly agaric in the woods. Read more
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Chicken of the woods, the old rotter!
I was walking along the River Arun one lunchtime when I spotted a massive fungal outpouring a short distance away. Read more
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Mushrooms at Sheffield Park
National Trust Sheffield Park, Fletching Parish, East Sussex, September 2025 A journey into the other half of Sussex! Sheffield Park is a wonderful park and garden near Uckfield in East Sussex. It’s free to National Trust members to enter but there’s a fee otherwise. Sheffield Park is Grade I listed due to the autumn colour Read more
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Birch boletes in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, 11th September 2025 Good news if you like to listen to people talking about mushrooms: this post is accompanied by a podcast I recorded while taking the photos. You can listen to it on YouTube below or via the usual platforms. A couple of things to point out – I made at Read more
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Scalycap in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, August 2025 In August I was perusing the woods in hope of some late summer shrooms. In these dry periods (August usually has rain, but not this year) it’s best to look for large dead or decaying wood. And so it proved. I passed a large fallen pine trunk that has spent Read more
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Green brittlegill
Ebernoe Parish, West Sussex, August 2025 On a hot and dry afternoon in late summer 2025 I headed out towards Petworth. The woods around there are well known for their fungal diversity, due to the amount of ancient Low Weald woodland, the number of old trees and lower impact land management. Let’s keep it that Read more
Fungi Friday 🍄 