Tag: Colgate
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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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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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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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Scalycap in Colgate
Colgate, West Sussex, August 2025 In August I was perusing the woods in hope of some late summer shrooms. In these dry periods (August usually has rain, but not this year) it’s best to look for large dead or decaying wood. And so it proved. I passed a large fallen…
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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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Fungus spore cloud – video
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The most amazing thing, though maybe not for my lungs. On Wednesday evening (9/7/25) I went for a walk at my closest woodland Narnia. It was evening, the sun was slanting through the trees. It was beautiful. I approached a fallen beech tree that I have…
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Winter chanterelles are hard to see
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 Back in early November I headed out to my local woodland to see what the autumn had to show for itself. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of fungi fruiting. However, there was a typical late-autumn/winter mushroom that I tripped over towards the end of my walk.…
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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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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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Eyelash fungi 👁
High Weald AONB, West Sussex, July 2023 Social media was awash with photos of blushers and boletes, so I thought it was a good time to visit one of my local woodlands. The mushrooms were few and far between until I passed through a damp area with a large fallen…
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