Category: Fungi
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How worried should you be about deathcaps?
Basically not very. We’re unofficially in drought in south-east England and there are no mushrooms to be found yet. So I am getting myself into trouble with a bit of commentary instead! Deathcaps are in the news at the moment because of a court case going on in Australia. This…
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Chicken of the woods in Cambridge
I’ve not had much luck with chicken of the woods in recent years, and I wouldn’t quite describe this as lucky!
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Turkey tails on laurel
It’s seriously dry in southern England at the moment, worryingly so, especially if you are 90% water by nature.
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Green elfcup
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 After a cold two months on ice Fungi Friday is back! While there aren’t many (if any) mushrooms fruiting yet, I was awoken from my fungal slumber by this mess of ascomycota, seen on Friday 21st March 2025. It always reminds me of these old wooden…
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Mushy Christmas!
Wishing you a Mushy Christmas this festive Fungi Friday! 🍄 In the absence of a mushroom blog this week please see below my posts about the tenuous but fascinating links between Father Christmas and fly agaric: And here’s part two: Thanks for reading.
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Fungi on Dartmoor, autumn 2024
This is a showcase of the posh mushroom pics I gathered with my proper camera during a visit to the wonderful Dartmoor National Park in November 2024.
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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