Strange to say it actually is a species that can be found in the London area. Head for Esher common where amazingly it is naturalized in one area of rich leaf...
Hello Ted, How are you? can't say I have come across Aseroe rubra in the London area, Esher is surrey isn't it? but it may still lurke in some awkward corner...
Hi there Andy. Yes indeed- Esher Common is in Surrey. However it is within 20 miles of St Paul's cathedral (LNHS's over generous definition of 'their' area)...
Hi Ted, Point taken on Esher. Yes I did know that Esher was one of the most recorded sites along with Bookham Common, Ruislip Woods and another site that...
At Last! The rains have come and maybe we'll get a decent fungi season after all. There's not much about at the moment but Geoffrey Kibby reckons this weather...
I have picked a few samples to help me learn what i what. I recognise a few of them but would appreciate a little help just to confirm. I feel i have a Prince...
Hi Bryce, A nice collection which certainly includes some things that I've yet to see this year. Though with the rains of the last fortnight or so, things are ...
Hello Folks. I just put a few images in a folder. Sorry about the typo on Agrocybe, my brain fused! I know the picture at the end is fairly ropey, but any...
Hi Bryce, Your Bolete is Boletus cisalpinus, not in most field guides. The intense bluing on the stem is a give away and the reddening in the cap flesh. The...
I've posted a pic of a Ganoderma found on a dead chestnut log; it looks a bit different from the ones I normally see (adspersum & appplanatum); is it? Also a...
... looks ... appplanatum); ... Hello Hilary, Your Ganoderma is most likely to be G. resinaceum it has had a very good summer/late summer this year. As for...
Thanks Andy; I suspected G resinaceum & it's a first for Ruskin park. The Inonotus is on an ash, a dead stump, & it's been there for many years, usually...
It is on an ash stump, and in other years has fruited higher up. There is a similar one on another ash tree nearby. The spores on the other one have been...
Hi Andy/Keir...... How did it go on Saturday at Hampstead Heath? I couldn't make it but was thinking about you lot. Had a look around the woods locally (Abbey...
Hi Ingrid, Yes it went fine at Hampstead on Saturday with over 40 species recorded, including some good stuff such as Hapalopilus nidulans, Rhodotus palmatus....
Hi, Do you have a good picture of B.Edulus. I think a have just found a patch of about eight of them under some trees beside a car park ( i had to pull over as...
Hi Bryce, If your Boletes stongly blue when you bruise the pores, I think you may have found B. radicans. If not, then you may have B. edulis. Keep me posted....
Hi Andy, I cut them in half and no blueing happened. The pores on a couple turned from white to yellow over time and in those particular specimens there was a...
Hi Bryce, Sounds like they may be B. edulis. How big are they? When you cut them in half, take a look directly beneath the cap skin, running horizontally ...
I've sent pics of this which I found yesterday. Details recorded; (formatting awry as it's a copy) Date 9.8.2006 Name Boletus ?albidus Habitat Ruskin...
Hi Hilary, Sure looks and reads like Boletus radicans (was B.albidus), the Rooting Bolete. The Checklist has it as locally common in southern England and...
Hello Hilary, I agree with Keir, that's B.radicans you have there, syn. B. albidus. The bracket fungus on the Ash tree is very intriguing, could you by any...
Thanks Keir There is a holm oak (Quercus ilex) growing about 2m from the boletes. The nearest English oak (Quercus sessiflora) is about 20m away (Tree data...
Next year's British Mycological Soc forays and workshops are now on their website: http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/meetings.asp ... This e-mail is sent by the...
Thanks Andy I've packed up a slice of the mystery fungus & will post it tomorrow. I thought the other tree was going to produce some but it seems to have...
