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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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Podcast: summer fungi walk
Earlier this week I went for a short walk around part of the Sussex Weald to see if any mushrooms had popped up. Podcast: summer fungi walk Here’s a repost of my fungi walk podcast I produced this week! Search for Unlocking Landscapes on all the non-BBC podcast platforms. Also here on YouTube: Enjoy! Read more
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Fungus spore cloud – video
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The most amazing thing, though maybe not for my lungs. On Wednesday evening (9/7/25) I went for a walk at my closest woodland Narnia. It was evening, the sun was slanting through the trees. It was beautiful. I approached a fallen beech tree that I have been passing for several years,… Read more
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Repost: Why do Slavic cultures love mushrooms?
This is a post first published on my personal website in August 2020. I’m posting it here today to celebrate its sort of fifth birthday. In the last 24 hours hundreds of people in Russia have been reading this, I don’t know why. Read more
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