Category: Fungi
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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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December goblet 🏆
West Sussex, December 2023 Passing down a footpath between two fields I noticed this winter shroom. I am pretty certain that this is one of the goblets, which I’ve only seen a couple of times. They’re quite difficult to photograph in the whole because their shape is so unusual. The…
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Ballerina waxcap and much more 🩰
Low Weald of West Sussex, Sunday 19th November 2023 I managed to get out to the Low Weald of West Sussex/Surrey border to a special area of woodland. I won’t name the exact site as it’s a Site of Special Scientific Interest and there’s been an increase in foraging recently,…
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Hen of the woods in London 🐔
Dulwich, London, Friday 17th November 2023 Hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa) was one of the first polypores I learned, and the first time I saw it was in Dulwich. Fittingly, my first (and second) HotW of the year were in the same area. This modest specimen was growing near…
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Surprise mushrooms in Dulwich Park
November 2023 in Dulwich Park provided some surprise shrooms more typical of rural woodlands.
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Shaggy inkcaps on the verge
West Sussex, November 2023 No awards being won here for mushroom pics, but these are my first shaggy inkcaps of the season. Underneath this lime tree, among the litter, I spotted some unusual shapes and off colours (from the yellow of the leaves). Kneeling down (with an audience, which is…
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Honey fungus near a roadside cherry 🍒
Tuesday 31st October, West Sussex Honey fungus can be a tricky one to predict. Sometimes it can pop up quite early in the season, but in recent years I’ve seen the first fruiting bodies later in the autumn. This year is an example of that. I was walking down the…
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Return to road verge agaricus 🛣️
This is the update you have all been waiting for. Since I posted about the agaricus mushrooms growing in a patch of grass on a street in the town where I live, I’ve been back to check on them.
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Mushroom peak in the High Weald – October 2023
Mid-October is one of the prime mushroom points in southern England, and this post is going to pack in several species.
Fungi Friday 🍄 