Tag: Ganoderma
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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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Surprise mushrooms in Dulwich Park
November 2023 in Dulwich Park provided some surprise shrooms more typical of rural woodlands.
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Ganoderma on Streatham Common
Have you ever seen a fungus fell a tree so cleanly? Not likely, because this was a chainsaw job! Streatham Common is part of London’s historic Great North Wood, a once extensive landscape of ancient woods and commons. It’s good for fungi and the management is very sensitive, as you…
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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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Ganoderma bracket on horse chestnut in London
I passed a horse chestnut tree near London’s South Circular in East Dulwich and found an epic Ganoderma bracket fungus.
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Essex stump bracket 🪵
Like the hot September weather, the Ganoderma theme continues. On the edge of Epping Forest I passed this big poplar stump which had a bracket fungus growing on it.
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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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Southern or artist’s bracket? 🟤⚪
Southern bracket grows bigger and more layered than artist’s bracket. The latter gets its name from the fact you can play noughts and crosses on its white underside, or sketch landscapes, the options are there.
Fungi Friday 🍄 