Category: Fungi
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Honey fungus on horse chestnut in London
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I was in London in early October visiting my old Lewisham haunts. Walking past some horse chestnut trees that I used to wait for the bus under as a teenager, I spotted some shrooms. Those honey-coloured caps suggested a couple of things. Firstly that they were…
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Mosaic puffball
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In the early autumn I saw a lot of mushrooms growing in a very small piece of old verge near my work. One of the mushrooms was a larger than usual puffball. I didn’t take much notice of it, but I noticed that it was quite…
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Fly agaric in Hemsted Forest
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In early October I was in Kent near Cranbrook and decided to drop in on a Forestry Commission site I’d never visited before: Hemsted Forest. Before I go any further, here’s a link to their fungi code which relates to foraging. I was here to take…
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Fungi macro in the High Weald, September 2024
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I really haven’t had enough time to photograph fungi with anything other my phone camera. But in late September I did manage to go for a walk in my local dreaming space, which happens to be in the lovely High Weald National Landscape. Here are some…
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Sea ivory lichen at Downpatrick Head 🇮🇪
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In September I visited Downpatrick Head on the North Mayo coast, to see the famous sea stack (header image). It was extremely blustery so I couldn’t spend too much time near the cliff edge trying to get a good view of the sea stack. Something else…
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Waxcaps galore
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 Recently I’ve been keeping an eye on some slithers of verge and lawn around the car park of my offices. I’ve seen a surprising number of waxcaps popping up, which suggest some of the grasslands are quite old. Now, I am not strong on the waxcaps…
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Deceiving bolete
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 On the slithers of car park verge near where I work an interesting bolete has been present for a couple of weeks. I put a photo on iNaturalist and one user asked for a pic of the underside to help ID. I posted the above and…
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Giant polypore at Nymans
Happy Fungi Friday as we enter into mushroom season! 🍄 At National Trust Nymans in Mid Sussex, there’s a dead copper beech tree that has been allowed to stand. I don’t know if it was an unsuitable pollard job that made the tree succumb (not blaming anyone!), but the weight…
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Peachy wonders
National Trust Nymans, West Sussex, September 2024 We’re approaching mushroom season in England and there are a few signs already. It’s been a wet spring and summer according to everyone so hopefully this will result in a decent autumn for our shrooms. Every cloud (literally)! On an afternoon walk around…
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Rooting bolete in the park
Happy Fungi Friday! My local park threw up a nice surprise this week when I spotted an uprooted bolete in the buttresses of an oak. I approached the oak and thought very quickly that it was a rooting bolete (Caloboletus radicans). Why? I’d seen this species during a walk in…
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