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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...
Thanks Alick for a good foray at Gunnersbury yesterday. I took a description of my latest mystery mushroom & Alick identified it as A inopinata. cf Kibby,...
Hi Hilary, Amanita inopinata is a good find, well done, I haven't come across at all but I am aware of it, was it Ruskin park? I have still to get round to...
I found this on the web, to nicely fill a gap in the foray calendar: -Jo Saturday 14th October 3.00pm - 5.30pm Fungal Foray A walk through Epping Forest...
Hello everyone, Short notice, apologies, but Peter James is leading a foray in Holland Park (Kensington & Chelsea) this coming Saturday. Meet outside the...
Thanks to Jo for details of the foray on Chingford Plain in a fortnight. Apparently places are limited to 30 people this year after the experience of hordes of...
