Category: Fungi
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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.
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Bramshott fungi walk – October 2023
Autumn had crashed in with its typical rain and leaf fall. I think the early mushroom season has been shortened by the hot September and sudden shift to seasonal storms.
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Road verge agaricus 🛣️
It was nice to find these road verge field mushrooms whilst out on an evening walk around the town.
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Mystery brittlegill in the cemetery 🔴
West Sussex, Friday 20th October 2023 There’s a small cemetery I can walk to from home that has been quite good for mushrooms during previous autumn visits. In the past I’ve seen a number of different waxcaps, goblets, parasols and blewits. Ironically I once saw a deathcap growing from a…
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Fly agaric proliferating 🍄
Happy Fungi Friday! I nipped over to my local woodland on Saturday 14th October to try and catch the mushroom boom. It was quite dark by the time I got there but still worth it. My first sighting was this beautiful blusher at the side of the track, shining in…
Fungi Friday 🍄 