Category: Ireland
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Coral lichen in Mayo, September 2026
Ox Mountains, Mayo, September 2026 Woohoo, two Fungi Friday posts on the trot! This is an addition to the post I published last week about lichens on a walled trackway in Mayo: That blog was really interesting to write and research (in addition to the meditative experience of taking the…
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Blast lichens in Mayo, September 2026
A surprisingly fruitful short lichen walk in County Mayo, featuring Desperate Dan (not me)!
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Sea ivory lichen at Downpatrick Head 🇮🇪
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In September I visited Downpatrick Head on the North Mayo coast, to see the famous sea stack (header image). It was extremely blustery so I couldn’t spend too much time near the cliff edge trying to get a good view of the sea stack. Something else…
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Deathcaps at Lough Cullin 🇮🇪
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…
