Tag: honey fungus
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Mushroom peak in West Sussex oak woods, October 2025

October’s mushroom peak in the oak woods of West Sussex
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Gifts from fallen trees in West Sussex, October 2025

Mushrooms around Ebernoe in West Sussex in October 2025
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Ludshott Common in Hampshire, October 2025

The fungi found on an October day in the woody heaths of East Hampshire
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Consumed by honey fungi in Cuckfield, October 2025

Trying to identify different types of honey fungus in Mid Sussex
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Muscular russulas at Sheffield Park, October 2025

A second visit to the National Trust’s Sheffield Park in 2025, this time in October. There was a lot to see.
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Honey fungus on horse chestnut in London

Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 I was in London in early October visiting my old Lewisham haunts. Walking past some horse chestnut trees that I used to wait for the bus under as a teenager, I spotted some shrooms. Those honey-coloured caps suggested a couple of things. Firstly that they were…
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Ballerina waxcap and much more 🩰

Low Weald of West Sussex, Sunday 19th November 2023 I managed to get out to the Low Weald of West Sussex/Surrey border to a special area of woodland. I won’t name the exact site as it’s a Site of Special Scientific Interest and there’s been an increase in foraging recently,…
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Honey fungus near a roadside cherry 🍒

Tuesday 31st October, West Sussex Honey fungus can be a tricky one to predict. Sometimes it can pop up quite early in the season, but in recent years I’ve seen the first fruiting bodies later in the autumn. This year is an example of that. I was walking down the…
