Fungi Friday 🍄

photographing fungi in West Sussex

  • Green elfcup

    Green elfcup

    Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 After a cold two months on ice Fungi Friday is back! While there aren’t many (if any) mushrooms fruiting yet, I was awoken from my fungal slumber by this mess of ascomycota, seen on Friday 21st March 2025. It always reminds me of these old wooden crates that me and my Read more

  • Fungi Friday is frozen 🥶

    Fungi Friday is frozen 🥶

    Happy Fungi Friday to all you fungus friends out there 🍄 I haven’t got any new mushroom content to share with you at the moment, probably because the autumn was so short and pickings were slim. It’s very cold in SE England which means the mushrooms aren’t fruiting, so I’ll likely be back in the Read more

  • Mushy Christmas!

    Mushy Christmas!

    Wishing you a Mushy Christmas this festive Fungi Friday! 🍄 In the absence of a mushroom blog this week please see below my posts about the tenuous but fascinating links between Father Christmas and fly agaric: And here’s part two: Thanks for reading. Read more

  • Fungi on Dartmoor, autumn 2024

    Fungi on Dartmoor, autumn 2024

    This is a showcase of the posh mushroom pics I gathered with my proper camera during a visit to the wonderful Dartmoor National Park in November 2024. Read more

  • Winter chanterelles are hard to see

    Winter chanterelles are hard to see

    Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 Back in early November I headed out to my local woodland to see what the autumn had to show for itself. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of fungi fruiting. However, there was a typical late-autumn/winter mushroom that I tripped over towards the end of my walk. It was the peak autumn, Read more

  • Mushroom explosion

    Mushroom explosion

    Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 There’s a pine tree I have seen declining in recent years, dramatically failing in the last year. It’s a big pine tree right outside a nursery school, so a fairly dangerous place for a dead tree. One afternoon I was passing the area when I saw tree surgeons surveying the tree. Read more