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Spindleshank in Handcross
Handcross, West Sussex, August 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 It’s that time of year when spindleshank is popping up at the toes of oaks that are not too healthy. I was in Handcross (technically Slaugham Parish) when I spotted my first spindleshanks of the year. They get their name from their long and spindly stipe Read more
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Hedgerows boletes in Henfield
During a walk near the river Adur in the Henfield area, a lot of boletes were on show in the hedgerows and verges. Read more
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Tuberous polypore in Colgate
31st July 2025, Colgate, West Sussex The Parish of Colgate is a very wooded part of West Sussex and so it’s one of my ‘go-to’ locations when the season is upon us. This was a quite optimistic walk around a large area of ancient woodland and pine plantation. It was a struggle to find anything, Read more
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Summer boletes in East Grinstead
East Court, East Grinstead (near Ashplatts Wood), July 2025 The summer bolete season is in full swing in West Sussex. Last week I found these large boletes in a little bit of woodland next to a lane. They were under oak. I turned one of the mushrooms over to check the underside. I found these Read more
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Chicken of the woods
Horsham, West Sussex, July 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 My wife sent me a photo while she was out for a walk with friends and asked, what’s this? It was this. This is a massive old boundary oak stump next to a cricket pitch. There was a game going on at the time actually, but Read more
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Satan’s bolete, or not?
Horsham, West Sussex, July 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The other day, I noticed some mushrooms growing in short grassland underneath a copper beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) on a main road. It’s a slither of green that I’ve inspected before and found Amanitas. At first thought they were some indescribable grey species. But they were Read more
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