Category: London
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Honey fungus on horse chestnut in London
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I was in London in early October visiting my old Lewisham haunts. Walking past some horse chestnut trees that I used to wait for the bus under as a teenager, I spotted some shrooms. Those honey-coloured caps suggested a couple of things. Firstly that they were…
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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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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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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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Ganoderma on Streatham Common
Have you ever seen a fungus fell a tree so cleanly? Not likely, because this was a chainsaw job! Streatham Common is part of London’s historic Great North Wood, a once extensive landscape of ancient woods and commons. It’s good for fungi and the management is very sensitive, as you…
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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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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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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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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.
