Category: Fungi
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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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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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