Category: Fungi
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Birch knight in Lower Beeding
Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 This is the second part of a bike ride round the edge of the western High Weald, which was surprisingly fruitful. This post focuses on a little churchyard at the edge of Coolhurst Wood, which has no public access (according to the hostile signage).…
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Beefsteak fungus on ancient oak
Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 In September I was out on my bike to do some low-carbon mushrooming. It’s a great way to get into some old woodlands that are very rich in fungi. Sussex is home to an astonishing array of ancient trees, most notably oak trees. This…
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The biggest penny bun I’ve seen
In mid-September I was out and about one morning to witness a big ol’ bolete and hundreds of fly agaric in the woods.
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Chicken of the woods, the old rotter!
I was walking along the River Arun one lunchtime when I spotted a massive fungal outpouring a short distance away.
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Mushrooms at Sheffield Park
National Trust Sheffield Park, Fletching Parish, East Sussex, September 2025 A journey into the other half of Sussex! Sheffield Park is a wonderful park and garden near Uckfield in East Sussex. It’s free to National Trust members to enter but there’s a fee otherwise. Sheffield Park is Grade I listed…
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Birch boletes in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, 11th September 2025 Good news if you like to listen to people talking about mushrooms: this post is accompanied by a podcast I recorded while taking the photos. You can listen to it on YouTube below or via the usual platforms. A couple of things to point…
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Scalycap in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, August 2025 In August I was perusing the woods in hope of some late summer shrooms. In these dry periods (August usually has rain, but not this year) it’s best to look for large dead or decaying wood. And so it proved. I passed a large fallen…
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Green brittlegill
Ebernoe Parish, West Sussex, August 2025 On a hot and dry afternoon in late summer 2025 I headed out towards Petworth. The woods around there are well known for their fungal diversity, due to the amount of ancient Low Weald woodland, the number of old trees and lower impact land…
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Spindleshank in Handcross
Handcross, West Sussex, August 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 It’s that time of year when spindleshank is popping up at the toes of oaks that are not too healthy. I was in Handcross (technically Slaugham Parish) when I spotted my first spindleshanks of the year. They get their name from…
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Hedgerows boletes in Henfield
During a walk near the river Adur in the Henfield area, a lot of boletes were on show in the hedgerows and verges.
Fungi Friday 🍄 