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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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Haywards Heath fungi walk 2024
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I led just the one community mushroom walk this year, with the Friends of Ashenground and Bolnore Woods in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It was on Saturday 12th October. I think this was the peak of the mushrooms season in West Sussex, what has not been a particularly rich one. So… Read more
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Honey fungus on horse chestnut in London
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I was in London in early October visiting my old Lewisham haunts. Walking past some horse chestnut trees that I used to wait for the bus under as a teenager, I spotted some shrooms. Those honey-coloured caps suggested a couple of things. Firstly that they were honey fungus (Armillaria mellea), one… Read more
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Mosaic puffball
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In the early autumn I saw a lot of mushrooms growing in a very small piece of old verge near my work. One of the mushrooms was a larger than usual puffball. I didn’t take much notice of it, but I noticed that it was quite an unusual shape. Here it’s… Read more
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