Hi Keir, Yes those Agaricus species can be huge hey? Yes I did collect A.bisporus a week or so ago and on the same day A. arvensis which I initially thought...
Hi everybody There have been some very large Agarics in Ruskin Park in the last few weeks, since the flood. I found one weighing 280gm and there have been...
Thanks Andy; I've just set up a spore print from a newer one I found when I went to measure the old one. I can measure the spores; I'll let you know. We can...
Spore print is very dark chocolate brown; spores are smooth ellipsoid, 4 x 6.8 mu. That's the limit of my microscopy! I suppose that makes them arvensis? 3 new...
Hi everyone. I found a couple of mushrooms on my lawn recently, and have seen very similar ones in the park. They could be M oreades except for the stems,...
Isleworth Ait is a unique, wooded island nature reserve in the Thames. Apart from the small number of volunteers who manage the site, it is largely unvisited....
Hi there, I hope that someone can help me. My house is full of various indoor plants, and I only have this problem with one of them. Up until three or so weeks...
Hi Louise, They sound very like the Plantpot Dapperling (Leucocoprinus birnbaumii) which often turns up in houseplants or in greenhouses. It's a native of ...
re my previous message; I've now seen lots more similar mushrooms & been able to follow their development for several days; they are obviously M.oreades. The...
Hello everyone, I've noticed more new stuff around the last few days after the usual midsummer lull, and so have a couple of other people. This led to...
Hello Keir and Londonfungi members, I have just returned from South Africa, where it is winter of course, and I saw Boletus edulis and Russula spp amongst...
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Hello people, I hope you won't mind having a look at a foreign fungus for me! I've uploaded a photo to the files section. A rubbery, hollow, stalkless fungus...
While I'm here, I wondered if fungi generally are appearing early this year. In South Yorkshire I haven't seen too many in the woods yet but certainly in...
I think it may be Sarcosphaera crassa. If so the spores are very distinctive, broadly elliptical with blunt ends and two drops. Regards, Ted. ... From:...
Hi everyone! I've sent a couple of pics of what I think is P. cervinus which I found in Ruskin Park recently; it seems to fit the descriptions but the spores...
Your picture and the spore size are fine for P. cervinus. MycoKey gives spore range 5-11 X 4-8.5 microns. BTW I have been experimenting with a CD of MycoKey,...
Hi Ted, Regarding the Mycokey, I don't actually have a copy so wouldn't mind trying it out, could you send me copy? Address Andy Overall Flat 2 39 North End...
Congratulations to Andy - Peter Marren has plucked some of his 2003 Hampstead Heath records for the Wildlife report on Fungi in the latest issue of British...
Hi Keir, Thanks for letting me know I had no idea Peter Marren had used some of my records, would that be the BBC mag you're talking about? It certainly has...
Dear All, This is to bring to the attention of the group a proposal I have received from Mike Waite (see below), who is Senior Policy Adviser (Biodiversity) to...
Hi Ted, Thanks for the congrats on FM article. With regard to the GLA interest in Hygrocybe, I would like to suggest a collaboration between yourselves and ...
An excellent proposal, I think, and one to be supported wholeheartedly. They're certainly widespread enough to be considered characteristic of acid grassland...
Sounds a marvellous idea, Andy. (BTW, what article in FM?) I can think of two things immediately that could make such a survey a bit more manageable: - if the...
My son living in Green Street Green, Kent, showed me a single fungus growing on a cut stump in his garden. It had been there for a couple of days, always...
Hemispherical with no stem suggests to me it is not actually a fungus but the myxomycete Reticularia lycoperdon As it is outside the 20-mile radius my comments...
Hemispherical with no stem suggests to me it is not actually a fungus but the myxomycete Reticularia lycoperdon As it is outside the 20-mile radius my comments...
