Category: Fungi
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Parasols in Vienna 🇦🇹
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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Holly parachute 🪂
Dulwich, London, Friday 17th November 2023 On a chilly afternoon back in November I was having a work meeting when I noticed a holly leaf resting under a pile of branches and picked it up. I am often on the lookout for parachute mushrooms on the woodland floor in October…
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South Downs Way shrooms 🥾
Amberley Downs, West Sussex, 11th November 2023 In November I headed up onto the South Downs in the Arun Valley. Chalk grassland fungi are some of the most spectacular and rare, so it was a good chance to see something not present in the lowland woods. There was plenty of…
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Lilac bonnet 🩷
Dulwich, London, 9th November 2023 Happy belated Fungi Friday. Here are some images from south-east London during prime mushroom season. It was bonnet o’clock, as this post demonstrates. Bonnets (Mycena) are a big group of mushrooms and I haven’t done enough work to identify them consistently. Perhaps the fact they’re…
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Hundreds of inkcaps in the cemetery
West Sussex, 31st October and 1st November 2023 Two days at a special little cemetery I know. It’s good to be reminded of how rich grassland ecosystems can be, and it’s not just about the woods. Also, I think I snapped three different species of one coral fungus genus here…
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Moss-shrooms and ‘larva lamps’
Warnham, West Sussex, October 2023 A couple of hours in a wetland reserve in West Sussex that accrued so many photos it has taken me two months to process them! Therefore be prepared for a comprehensive post this week. The star of the show here is lumpy bracket, about halfway…
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Magpies, hedgehogs and parachutes
Low Weald near Petworth, West Sussex, 21st October 2023 Now there’s a blog title you never thought you’d read. The good thing is that every word of it is true. Anything is possible in the world of fungi. In mid-late October 2023 I visited the deepest, darkest, most ecologically dynamic…
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Churchyard earthtongues 🖤
South Downs Way, West Sussex, November 2023 Here’s a new sighting for me! I don’t want to identify the churchyard I visited, but it was along the South Downs Way in West Sussex. I would say that most churchyards in the South Downs will have good fungal diversity, so just…
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Fairy-ring champignon 🧚♂️
West Sussex, November 2023 One of the most iconic mushroom experiences is surely encountering a fairy-ring. In late-November I found one in a little cemetery I visit each autumn to check for fungi. While the ring is not entire, it is a pretty solid effort from fairy-ring champignon, a member…
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