Tag: Amanita
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All the colours of the shroombow 🌈
Colgate, West Sussex, September 2025 There’s a lot of different colours happening in this post. I’ve been wondering what makes a place ‘good’ for certain species of fungi. None more so than when I witnessed hundreds of fly agarics in some ancient woodland in Colgate in late September. This is…
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Birch knight in Lower Beeding
Lower Beeding, West Sussex, September 2025 This is the second part of a bike ride round the edge of the western High Weald, which was surprisingly fruitful. This post focuses on a little churchyard at the edge of Coolhurst Wood, which has no public access (according to the hostile signage).…
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Tuberous polypore in Colgate
31st July 2025, Colgate, West Sussex The Parish of Colgate is a very wooded part of West Sussex and so it’s one of my ‘go-to’ locations when the season is upon us. This was a quite optimistic walk around a large area of ancient woodland and pine plantation. It was…
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How worried should you be about deathcaps?
Basically not very. We’re unofficially in drought in south-east England and there are no mushrooms to be found yet. So I am getting myself into trouble with a bit of commentary instead! Deathcaps are in the news at the moment because of a court case going on in Australia. This…
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Fly agaric in Hemsted Forest
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In early October I was in Kent near Cranbrook and decided to drop in on a Forestry Commission site I’d never visited before: Hemsted Forest. Before I go any further, here’s a link to their fungi code which relates to foraging. I was here to take…
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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…
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Car park amanitas 🅿️
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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Tawny grisette in June
This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland. This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo…
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A fly agaric Christmas & New Year 🍄
From everyone at FungiFriday.co.uk (me), hoping you have the chance to think about mushrooms over the holiday period. Please enjoy these (mostly German) fly agaric-focused Christmas and New Year’s cards: Viel glück! 🍄
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Mushroom peak in the High Weald – October 2023
Mid-October is one of the prime mushroom points in southern England, and this post is going to pack in several species.
Fungi Friday 🍄 