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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
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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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