Category: Fungi
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Tuberous polypore in Colgate
31st July 2025, Colgate, West Sussex The Parish of Colgate is a very wooded part of West Sussex and so it’s one of my ‘go-to’ locations when the season is upon us. This was a quite optimistic walk around a large area of ancient woodland and pine plantation. It was…
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Summer boletes in East Grinstead
East Court, East Grinstead (near Ashplatts Wood), July 2025 The summer bolete season is in full swing in West Sussex. Last week I found these large boletes in a little bit of woodland next to a lane. They were under oak. I turned one of the mushrooms over to check…
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Chicken of the woods
Horsham, West Sussex, July 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 My wife sent me a photo while she was out for a walk with friends and asked, what’s this? It was this. This is a massive old boundary oak stump next to a cricket pitch. There was a game going on…
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Satan’s bolete, or not?
Horsham, West Sussex, July 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The other day, I noticed some mushrooms growing in short grassland underneath a copper beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) on a main road. It’s a slither of green that I’ve inspected before and found Amanitas. At first thought they were some indescribable…
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Podcast: summer fungi walk
Earlier this week I went for a short walk around part of the Sussex Weald to see if any mushrooms had popped up. Podcast: summer fungi walk Here’s a repost of my fungi walk podcast I produced this week! Search for Unlocking Landscapes on all the non-BBC podcast platforms. Also…
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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.
Fungi Friday 🍄 