Tag: Haywards Heath
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Haywards Heath fungi walk 2024
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I led just the one community mushroom walk this year, with the Friends of Ashenground and Bolnore Woods in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It was on Saturday 12th October. I think this was the peak of the mushrooms season in West Sussex, what has not been…
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Mosaic puffball
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In the early autumn I saw a lot of mushrooms growing in a very small piece of old verge near my work. One of the mushrooms was a larger than usual puffball. I didn’t take much notice of it, but I noticed that it was quite…
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Waxcaps galore
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 Recently I’ve been keeping an eye on some slithers of verge and lawn around the car park of my offices. I’ve seen a surprising number of waxcaps popping up, which suggest some of the grasslands are quite old. Now, I am not strong on the waxcaps…
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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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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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Chantarelles in Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, September 2023 Earlier this week I received an evening introduction to a very interesting complex of small woods in the Haywards Heath area in West Sussex, ahead of a walk I’m leading in October. There were very few mushrooms or fungi at all to be seen,…
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