Category: West Sussex
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Deceiving bolete
Happy Fungi Friday! đ On the slithers of car park verge near where I work an interesting bolete has been present for a couple of weeks. I put a photo on iNaturalist and one user asked for a pic of the underside to help ID. I posted the above and…
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Giant polypore at Nymans
Happy Fungi Friday as we enter into mushroom season! đ At National Trust Nymans in Mid Sussex, there’s a dead copper beech tree that has been allowed to stand. I don’t know if it was an unsuitable pollard job that made the tree succumb (not blaming anyone!), but the weight…
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Peachy wonders
National Trust Nymans, West Sussex, September 2024 We’re approaching mushroom season in England and there are a few signs already. It’s been a wet spring and summer according to everyone so hopefully this will result in a decent autumn for our shrooms. Every cloud (literally)! On an afternoon walk around…
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Rooting bolete in the park
Happy Fungi Friday! My local park threw up a nice surprise this week when I spotted an uprooted bolete in the buttresses of an oak. I approached the oak and thought very quickly that it was a rooting bolete (Caloboletus radicans). Why? I’d seen this species during a walk in…
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Twitten boletes
Happy Fungi Friday! đ The weather has felt a little more autumnal in recent days. So I wasn’t surprised to see one of the summer boletes, despite their hard location. What a mess eh? You can see the pores here on the underside of the gap, a key feature of…
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Car park amanitas đ ŋī¸
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Friday 26th July, 2024 Today I was out and about and spotted a tranche of Amanita mushrooms on a car park verge. This is my first sighting of proper summer shrooms, and I think they’re the grey-spotted Amanitas which are potentially a couple of different sub…
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Disco jelly đĒŠ
I’ve not been in fungi mode this week and have spent most of the time in an office. But today I noticed this little gathering of what might be lemon disco on a bench under an oak tree. I’ve found this to be a common and consistently urban fungus. It…
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South Downs Way shrooms đĨž
Amberley Downs, West Sussex, 11th November 2023 In November I headed up onto the South Downs in the Arun Valley. Chalk grassland fungi are some of the most spectacular and rare, so it was a good chance to see something not present in the lowland woods. There was plenty of…
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Hundreds of inkcaps in the cemetery
West Sussex, 31st October and 1st November 2023 Two days at a special little cemetery I know. It’s good to be reminded of how rich grassland ecosystems can be, and it’s not just about the woods. Also, I think I snapped three different species of one coral fungus genus here…
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Moss-shrooms and ‘larva lamps’
Warnham, West Sussex, October 2023 A couple of hours in a wetland reserve in West Sussex that accrued so many photos it has taken me two months to process them! Therefore be prepared for a comprehensive post this week. The star of the show here is lumpy bracket, about halfway…
