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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mushrooms vs. plastic
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 One thing I’ve noticed recently is the creeping in of environmentally harmful gardening practice on private land. I say private land because in the UK a lot of good things are happening in public parks as public interest in ecology has begun to influence local politicians and public authorities. Also –… Read more
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