-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Waxcaps galore
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 Recently I’ve been keeping an eye on some slithers of verge and lawn around the car park of my offices. I’ve seen a surprising number of waxcaps popping up, which suggest some of the grasslands are quite old. Now, I am not strong on the waxcaps (hygrocybe) but iNaturalist is helping… Read more
-
Deceiving bolete
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 On the slithers of car park verge near where I work an interesting bolete has been present for a couple of weeks. I put a photo on iNaturalist and one user asked for a pic of the underside to help ID. I posted the above and it was confirmed as deceiving… Read more
-
Giant polypore at Nymans
Happy Fungi Friday as we enter into mushroom season! 🍄 At National Trust Nymans in Mid Sussex, there’s a dead copper beech tree that has been allowed to stand. I don’t know if it was an unsuitable pollard job that made the tree succumb (not blaming anyone!), but the weight was taken off likely to… Read more
Fungi Friday 🍄 