What fungi did you spot today?
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Not sure what either of them are, but it's good to see a start. We're still very dry here in Sussex.
i saw sulphur tuft. huge patches on dead sycamore made all the more strange by my believeling that sycamore is not fungi friendly . x
Dawn walk on Hampstead Heath this morning and saw this willow with Chicken of the Woods erupting all over it.
First one possibly Red Raspberry Slime? Never seen it myself though.
Second one looks a bit like Peeling Oysterling, though that is a 70% confidence without seeing the gills and giving it a squish/stretch to see if it has the peeling cuticle.
Thanks for reminding me, I do indeed have a UV torch for mundane document and money checking.
Here's another clump of sulphur tuft under UV.
She found this one on a dog walk and sent me a pic. On an oak, I think. Any ideas?
Is it just Daldinia concentrica? Or a different Daldinia?
Is it just Daldinia concentrica? Or a different Daldinia?
Nevermind, I missed it in your post.
Looks a bit like a baby beefsteak fungus.
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Looks a bit like a baby beefsteak fungus.
Rare, Medium or Well Done? – Beef Steak Fungus
It’s a comical sight and nice surprise when you first come across an oak tree sticking it’s pinky red tongue out at you! It’s happened to me a few times and I seem to be getting u…
www.mushroomdiary.co.uk
Good shout, I've never actually seen a beefsteak. I'll have to find out where it is and pay it a visit.Nevermind, I missed it in your post.
Looks a bit like a baby beefsteak fungus.
Rare, Medium or Well Done? – Beef Steak Fungus
It’s a comical sight and nice surprise when you first come across an oak tree sticking it’s pinky red tongue out at you! It’s happened to me a few times and I seem to be getting u…
A bit late in the scene this year as we were away on holiday during the proper mushroom season, but we were amazed to bump into some pretty decent ones today. It seems the rain yesterday encouraged the last ones to pop up.
So:
-some still-young puffballs, on the edge probably but still firm and usable
-a couple of awesome, fresh, firm and decent size porcini
-plenty of brown birch bolettes of various sizes
-a few champignon
So:
-some still-young puffballs, on the edge probably but still firm and usable
-a couple of awesome, fresh, firm and decent size porcini
-plenty of brown birch bolettes of various sizes
-a few champignon
A parasol in one of our meadows. They seem to appear in the same spot year after year. This one is 8" tall and cap is just over 6" across.
I still haven't seen it, but she showed me another few pictures today. Definitely a beefsteak.Nevermind, I missed it in your post.
Looks a bit like a baby beefsteak fungus.
Rare, Medium or Well Done? – Beef Steak Fungus
It’s a comical sight and nice surprise when you first come across an oak tree sticking it’s pinky red tongue out at you! It’s happened to me a few times and I seem to be getting u…
Out in my woods and was looking for winter chanterelle which are now coming out in large numbers. But I was also very surprised to find wood hedgehog still in great condition. Always same spot, but many more this year, so I think they may have now established and spreading.
Collected enough of both for tonight's soup, back tomorrow for a haul of winter chants to dry over the stove.
Collected enough of both for tonight's soup, back tomorrow for a haul of winter chants to dry over the stove.
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Very jealous. It has been incredibly poor around here, nothing foragable for the past few weeks in my usual spots. Even the ones usually loaded with Bay Bolete.
I don't know about hedgehog, but for the winter chanterelle try somewhere with fern/bracken and fallen birch leaves, south side of a slope with decent drainage. They seem to be so abundant here that it's hard to avoid stepping on them! Strangely though, although there are large areas like I described, there are some concentrated patches they seem to like a lot and you don't find them everywhere. Once you find the spots though, there are loads and loads.
I forgot; the place is normally absolutely packed with all sorts of bolete in the main mushroom season, including porcini, but it's too late in the season now. We were away on holidays and I only just managed to come up for the deer rut starting, hoping to find some left overs, but it looks like it's just those hedgehogs (there were no more) and massive amounts of winter chanterelle.
I think it’s geography specific to be honest, this part of the country has never been good for chants. Might take a trip up to North Yorkshire if I can do so in the next few weeks.
Hedgehogs are one of my favourites but, similar to Chris, I've not found them where I currently live. We seem to get less of the common edible fungi down here and I wondered if it's down to a more consistant climate (as many seem to fruit after dry or cold weather) or more sea air or something else. Hopefully I've just not found them.
Interestingly, I've found hedgehogs both in the far north of Scotland, and in Angus near Edzell. In the far north, they were near the border between birches around a stream, and a commercial conifer plantation, good patch around a gigantic spruce. In Angus, they were among old scots pines hidden among the very low shrubs between those trees. Very different spots and conditions, but same species. I've also found many near our place in Italy up in the mountains. So, I can't tell for sure what it is that they like, other than decent drainage and probably cooler conditions, usually finding them well after the chanterelle have been and gone.
