I've put pics of a mysterious crop of ?agarics which I found in the park today. Gills are pale cream,free,I think; no rings because none were open, though they...
Hi Hilary, Your fungi are in fact Macrolepiota rhacodes, the gills are free on lepiota species also, bruising orange brown when scraped. Regards Andy Overall ...
Having seen Andy's excellent pic from Hampstead Heath last weekend, and being particularly impressed by the rich colour of the fungus, I went to the two known...
Went for a wander this pm and didn't find much until a small patch of parkland in Bounds Green. A few interesting looking Russula caught my eye, so I bent down...
Hello everyone, Graeme has suggested popping a list of upcoming forays in the next LNHS newsletter, mid-October. A great idea, so please have a look at...
Just come across the latest Epping Forest newsletter from the Corporation of London. On the front page, there's a piece on Wanstead Flats. Apparently, Wanstead...
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Keir, Wanstead Flats are interesting but *very* disturbed. I did a lot of insect work there (good for spiders and hymenopterans) but don't recall much in the ...
A call to look at the Waxcap grasslands of London. Waxcaps are the colourful waxy looking fungi that appear in grassland that has not been fertilised or...
I've updated the foray list with another Epping Forest one next month - went there last weekend and it was teeming with mushrooms, enough to support a hundred...
Hello all, This request may be regarded as cross-fertilisation or interdisciplinary study and it is vaguely fungal related! As you will know (!), two or three...
Dear all As Keir has mentioned, I am interested in going to Darwin's Down House in Kent to check out the fungi this season - it's supposed to be good for...
Pleurotus dryinus has appeared on horse chestnut in Alexandra Park. I have posted two pictures attempting to show the characteristic remnants of the partial...
Dear Jen, Yes you can wander round the garden and the sand walk; at least you could when I went on a pilgrimage to the ‘holiest ground’ in biology about 10...
Jen and Ted I was there in mid June, no problem in walking anywhere in the grounds. There is also public access in the fields/meadows immediately surrounding ...
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... wrote: Hi Paul. Ladybirds have not been common around here this year, but I have seen some small colonies of Halyzia sedecimguttata on horse chestnuts in...
Thanks Sameer, There do seem to be more orange ladybirds about than usual but they may be hiding away - not the best of weather for anyone. Incidentally, you...
Keeping an eye out for this one, Paul, after recent news. As a Fellow of the Zoological Sociery of London, I get alerts early. Visiting Windsor Great Park...
Keeping an eye out for this one, Paul, after recent news. As a Fellow of the Zoological Sociery of London, I get alerts early. Visiting Windsor Great Park...
The most intensively searched fungi site in the UK, Esher Common, has a foray organised for this Sunday. Meet at Horseshoe Clump car park at 10am. Details are...
The Friends of Nunhead Cemetery are organising a foray, led by June Chatfield, on Saturday 23 October at 2pm. Everyone welcome; donations will be appreciated....
Dear Sameer, Well done! The multi-named menace is heading your way. Latest sightings (multiple) in Wandsworth with others over S.E. England up to Ipswich. ...
I love this species! There were even more fruiting bodies in Highgate Wood this afternoon (thanks, Sylvia) - six or seven individuals on one decaying stump,...
June is leading another fungus foray : Sat 6th Nov at Alton Abbey (Hampshire) 10 - 4, cost £15, and she is running a fungus day at South London Botanical...
....spoke to June Chatfield today & firstly the Nunhead foray is a lichen one rather than a fungus foray, however I now have more details about the fungus...
I've updated the foray list again in the FILES section. I've also taken the liberty of going a little off-topic by uploading a PDF file also into the FILES...
Very, very late I know but I only got the information this pm. Croydon Natural History Society's annual foray at Banstead Woods is led by Jane McLauchlin and...
I've found mushrooms which fit all the characteristics of this one, described in Thomas Laessoe's Handbook (Dorling Kindersley), but it isn't in Phillips or...
