Category: West Sussex
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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…
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Boletes at the library 📚
I have been keeping an eye on the woodchip outside my local library for a few months now. That focus has paid off handsomely.
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Mystery amanita at the roadside 🛣️
I was walking down the street the other day, passing a large beech tree that I’ve posted about before. We’ve had quite a lot of rain in recent weeks and it’s always worth having a gander. I did pause to think, should I traipse over there and crouch down next…
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UK Fungus Day 2023 in West Sussex 🍄
I had a very good UK Fungus Day on Saturday, leading a guided walk in Haywards Heath in the morning and then went for my own personal none-to-one guided walk.
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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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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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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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Chantarelles in Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, September 2023 Earlier this week I received an evening introduction to a very interesting complex of small woods in the Haywards Heath area in West Sussex, ahead of a walk I’m leading in October. There were very few mushrooms or fungi at all to be seen,…
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Don’t ask me about brittlestems (please)!
Header image by David Oldham As the only person that many of my friends and family know to be a fungi enthusiast (synonyms include ‘expert’ or ‘fun guy”), I am pleased to receive fungi photos on WhatsApp. Sharing photos between friends and family like this is an important social and…
