Category: Fungi
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Deathcaps at Lough Cullin đŽđĒ
Happy Fungi Friday! An interesting find on a visit to Mayo in Ireland this week. September is a good month for deathcaps, and so it showed. The first thing I saw was this upturned mushroom cap, which I went to inspect. You can see the remnants of a veil at…
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Twitten boletes
Happy Fungi Friday! đ The weather has felt a little more autumnal in recent days. So I wasn’t surprised to see one of the summer boletes, despite their hard location. What a mess eh? You can see the pores here on the underside of the gap, a key feature of…
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Car park amanitas đ ŋī¸
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Friday 26th July, 2024 Today I was out and about and spotted a tranche of Amanita mushrooms on a car park verge. This is my first sighting of proper summer shrooms, and I think they’re the grey-spotted Amanitas which are potentially a couple of different sub…
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Tawny grisette in June
This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland. This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo…
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Disco jelly đĒŠ
I’ve not been in fungi mode this week and have spent most of the time in an office. But today I noticed this little gathering of what might be lemon disco on a bench under an oak tree. I’ve found this to be a common and consistently urban fungus. It…
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June mushrooms on Box Hill
I walked a loop of the famous Box Hill on the North Downs today. There wasn’t a lot to set the heart racing (that’s the hill’s job!) but a couple of things did crop up. Photos are taken with my Pixel 7a. Early on in the walk there was a…
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Fungi in the Jungfrau, Switzerland đ¨đ
The Jungfrau mountains, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, May 2024 Wow, the Swiss Alps are incredible! They are also quite wet, which means that I managed to find some fungi there when visiting in late-May 2024. The fungi were found during short walks in steep woodland and pics were taken with my…
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Green elfcup in Salzkammergut đĻđš
Salzkammergut, Austria, May 2024 It may not look like much, and probably is an excuse to share this incredible scenery, but here is an interesting fungus. Green elfcup is mostly seen as this green blush on pieces of soft, broken wood. If you’re lucky, you’ll see small green-blue fruiting cups…
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Parasols in Vienna đĻđš
Vienna, Austria, Friday 17th May 2024 I’ve been on my honeymoon in Austria this week and while traipsing through the beautiful streets of Vienna I spotted my first proper mushrooms of the year. This is a summer shroom (from memory) but I wasn’t looking for anything. There has been a…
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The ultimate beard lichen in Devon
Dartmoor National Park, Devon, May 2023 To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of me seeing this lichen, well, here it is! I was on a walk around the river Dart at the picturesque Dartmeet, feeling rather hangry actually, when we stopped by the river. Most people visiting the area don’t get…
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