You might be right, but my books do not list beech among the trees it grows on, and I've personally never seen it on beech. Usually oak, chestnut, yew, cherry or sycamore.
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You might be right, but my books do not list beech among the trees it grows on, and I've personally never seen it on beech. Usually oak, chestnut, yew, cherry or sycamore.
Interesting, a bit of digging and some seem to say rare on beech and others common. I've found quite a few specimens on beech trees occurring year after year along with cherry, yew and willow but rarely on sycamore and oak. Sadly this was when I was in the South East, I've yet to find any in Devon.
I just found some this morning, on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Hard to tell for sure what sort of wood it was, but I think it was sycamore.
Found a ton of the stuff this morning, mainly on yew. I'm going to try eating it, and see what happens!
Mmmmm I hope your safe, but I wouldn't ......not till a year after your trial lol
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Still still here! Blog entry about chicken of the wood on yew: http://www.geoffdann.co.uk/uncategorized/chyewks-chickens-of-the-wood-on-yew/
To be honest that was my first thought from my book but they are slimmy to touch is that normal
Hats off to you Geoff! Good write up, you are a brave and talented man.
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Hah! That's a kind offer, but what I wanted was a really good photo (that I might use one day in a book) rather than the mushrooms themselves.
I do have some photos of oyster mushrooms, but that lot would have made a better one.
Hah! That's a kind offer, but what I wanted was a really good photo (that I might use one day in a book) rather than the mushrooms themselves.
I do have some photos of oyster mushrooms, but that lot would have made a better one.
I'm off to pick my dinner shortly so I will take lots of pics and hopefully one will do
Collected this today, I believe it to be Chicken of the Woods. Can someone positively ID this and are there any other species it could be? It smells like normal mushrooms that you buy from the shops if that means anything.
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