Tag: boletus edulis
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New Forest National Park, September 2025
On 25th September 2025 I made my annual visit to the New Forest National Park to walk a 10-mile circular route from Brockenhurst railway station.
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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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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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Birch boletes in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, 11th September 2025 Good news if you like to listen to people talking about mushrooms: this post is accompanied by a podcast I recorded while taking the photos. You can listen to it on YouTube below or via the usual platforms. A couple of things to point…
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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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Bramshott fungi walk – October 2023
Autumn had crashed in with its typical rain and leaf fall. I think the early mushroom season has been shortened by the hot September and sudden shift to seasonal storms.
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Less is More: thoughts on foraging by Kerrie Ann Gardner
Fungi enthusiasts who have spent time on Twitter in the past few years may know the name of Kerrie Ann Gardner. She went viral for an image of a lichen reaching out ala ET on Twitter (when it was good) and regularly makes an impact with her painted stones on…
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August bolete bonanza in the New Forest National Park 🐎
I was in the New Forest National Park camping for a couple of nights last week. The rainy July in southern England gave great hope of finding some nice shrooms in this, one of England’s mushroom wonderlands.
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Bay-by bolete 👶
High Weald AONB, West Sussex, July 2023 Here we are in ‘fake fall’ as the Americans call it. Many across the Mediterranean and probably large parts of The World would probably agree – you’d take rain and cloud over hellfire. The rains are also a joy because they bring shrooms…
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