Category: Fungi
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Wrinkled peach in south London
Dulwich, London, Friday 6th October 2023 Happy Fungi Friday! These pics are fresh out of the woods. Some nice finds today, though everything seems behind on last year. Going to be warm again next week. Wrinkled peach This beautiful little mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus) is one I’ve only seen in person…
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Early October inkcaps
We’re still playing the game of summer shrooms in West Sussex. The early autumn arrivals haven’t shown their caps and cups yet.
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Ganoderma bracket on horse chestnut in London
I passed a horse chestnut tree near London’s South Circular in East Dulwich and found an epic Ganoderma bracket fungus.
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Less is More: thoughts on foraging by Kerrie Ann Gardner
Fungi enthusiasts who have spent time on Twitter in the past few years may know the name of Kerrie Ann Gardner. She went viral for an image of a lichen reaching out ala ET on Twitter (when it was good) and regularly makes an impact with her painted stones on…
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September stereum
Dulwich, London, September 2023 This week the heavens have opened. The down payment has been paid on the mushroom season. This is no evidence of mushroom season, but this stereum (probably hairy curtain crust, stereum hirsutum) has taken on a more vibrant guise after the rain. As ever on Fungi…
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There’s a massive mushroom in my house
Not quite the post I was expecting to make this week, but I found a woodland fungus growing in a dark and poorly heated corner of my house!
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Essex stump bracket 🪵
Like the hot September weather, the Ganoderma theme continues. On the edge of Epping Forest I passed this big poplar stump which had a bracket fungus growing on it.
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Heatwave kills the vibe
Happy #FungiFriday. An infuriating week for southern English funga, if you want to take things that far. It’s been above 30 degrees for most of the last 10 days with no proper rain. The only photo I have is this Ganoderma bracket, taken in West Sussex on my phone. Unlike…
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Southern or artist’s bracket? 🟤⚪
Southern bracket grows bigger and more layered than artist’s bracket. The latter gets its name from the fact you can play noughts and crosses on its white underside, or sketch landscapes, the options are there.
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Heatwave earthballs 🌍
I’ve been in London through most of this week’s heatwave, with some time spent in woodland. The ground is bone dry and there are no typical mushrooms sprouting. Earthballs are not typical mushrooms, but are definitely one of the most recognisable or often encountered species of fungi. At the bottom…
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