Category: Fungi
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Southern or artist’s bracket? 🟤⚪
Southern bracket grows bigger and more layered than artist’s bracket. The latter gets its name from the fact you can play noughts and crosses on its white underside, or sketch landscapes, the options are there.
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Heatwave earthballs 🌍
I’ve been in London through most of this week’s heatwave, with some time spent in woodland. The ground is bone dry and there are no typical mushrooms sprouting. Earthballs are not typical mushrooms, but are definitely one of the most recognisable or often encountered species of fungi. At the bottom…
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Chantarelles in Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, September 2023 Earlier this week I received an evening introduction to a very interesting complex of small woods in the Haywards Heath area in West Sussex, ahead of a walk I’m leading in October. There were very few mushrooms or fungi at all to be seen,…
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Bedgebury Pinetum – the best place to see fungi in England? 🌲
I visited Bedgebury Pinetum in SW Kent for the first time in early September. It was impressive to see a noticeboard highlighting the Pinetum as one of ‘the best places for fungi in the country’.
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Black bulgar ⚫
A post about a fungus that always seems to be on oak logs (and will win no photographer of the year awards).
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Don’t ask me about brittlestems (please)!
Header image by David Oldham As the only person that many of my friends and family know to be a fungi enthusiast (synonyms include ‘expert’ or ‘fun guy”), I am pleased to receive fungi photos on WhatsApp. Sharing photos between friends and family like this is an important social and…
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“Purpurascentes” webcap in the New Forest 🕸️
The remnants of the veil between the cap and stipe, covering the gills, gave me the thought that this was a webcap.
Fungi Friday 🍄 