Tag: boletes
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The biggest penny bun I’ve seen
In mid-September I was out and about one morning to witness a big ol’ bolete and hundreds of fly agaric in the woods.
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Mushrooms at Sheffield Park
National Trust Sheffield Park, Fletching Parish, East Sussex, September 2025 A journey into the other half of Sussex! Sheffield Park is a wonderful park and garden near Uckfield in East Sussex. It’s free to National Trust members to enter but there’s a fee otherwise. Sheffield Park is Grade I listed…
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Spindleshank in Handcross
Handcross, West Sussex, August 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 It’s that time of year when spindleshank is popping up at the toes of oaks that are not too healthy. I was in Handcross (technically Slaugham Parish) when I spotted my first spindleshanks of the year. They get their name from…
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Hedgerows boletes in Henfield
During a walk near the river Adur in the Henfield area, a lot of boletes were on show in the hedgerows and verges.
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Satan’s bolete, or not?
Horsham, West Sussex, July 2025 Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The other day, I noticed some mushrooms growing in short grassland underneath a copper beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) on a main road. It’s a slither of green that I’ve inspected before and found Amanitas. At first thought they were some indescribable…
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Deceiving bolete
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 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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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! 🍄 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 🅿️
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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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 🍄 