Category: Fungi
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Fungus spore cloud – video
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The most amazing thing, though maybe not for my lungs. On Wednesday evening (9/7/25) I went for a walk at my closest woodland Narnia. It was evening, the sun was slanting through the trees. It was beautiful. I approached a fallen beech tree that I have…
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Repost: Why do Slavic cultures love mushrooms?
This is a post first published on my personal website in August 2020. I’m posting it here today to celebrate its sort of fifth birthday. In the last 24 hours hundreds of people in Russia have been reading this, I don’t know why.
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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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