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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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Fly agaric in Hemsted Forest
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In early October I was in Kent near Cranbrook and decided to drop in on a Forestry Commission site I’d never visited before: Hemsted Forest. Before I go any further, here’s a link to their fungi code which relates to foraging. I was here to take photographs and not to pick… Read more
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Fungi macro in the High Weald, September 2024
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I really haven’t had enough time to photograph fungi with anything other my phone camera. But in late September I did manage to go for a walk in my local dreaming space, which happens to be in the lovely High Weald National Landscape. Here are some mirrorless camera and macro lens… Read more
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Sea ivory lichen at Downpatrick Head 🇮🇪
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In September I visited Downpatrick Head on the North Mayo coast, to see the famous sea stack (header image). It was extremely blustery so I couldn’t spend too much time near the cliff edge trying to get a good view of the sea stack. Something else caught my eye, on the… Read more
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