Dear All, I was sent some images (see Marks bits & bobs folder in the photoalbum) of a mystery growth on a tree stump by a member of the public (no locality...
Yes, definitely these are very nice clear pictures of fungal consortia on a spring sap flow. Topical as ever there is an excellent article on this phenomenon...
Dear All, I have set up a folder containing several documents summarising the status of some of London's rarer fungi. This is for part of the London ...
Earlier this year I used the site to poll you all about setting up an ABFG group and the results are shown below. Not a huge turn out but at least there is...
Mant thanks for this, Ted. We are indeed honoured to have an opportunity to meet Michael Jordan. His illustrated Encyclopedia has long been a faithful...
Dear Ted, Thanks for organising this; I'll try & be there - although I have some fieldwork planned for that date & may not be able to make it.Mark Home: 72...
Hello everyone, I don't know how much there is about at the moment. It's certainly very dry in this crazy weather we're having at the moment. But I see there's...
For those of you with some free time over the next month or so (if they remain flowering in this warm weather) why not try the Natural History Museum's...
Yes and while you are about it please look out for Uromyces muscari. The telia occur on both surfaces of the leaf (amphigenous), and are dark brown on...
Yes of course. There is a microfungus called Uromyces muscari that appears on English and Spanish bluebell leaves at this time of year. It is a basidiomycete...
Thank-you Ted. Now I will be getting all excited about microfungi and looking for them everywhere. Happy St George's day to all, -Jo ... From: Edward Tuddenham...
... Hi Keir, I was at Wimbledon Common today on an SLBI Bryophyte Field Day & we used the microscope in the Information Centre (near the windmill). It's...
Hi Ted and Jo, What's this, guys....enthusing about one of my favourite subjects? Can't resist, can't resist. Honestly once you get hooked into rusts you'll...
I will now be even slower at walking anywhere, with my nose to the ground. Brian, are you coming on the foray this weekend? (LNHS Botany group spring foray,...
... Agrocybe rivulosa ('Wrinkled Fieldcap' seems a good vernacular name for it, don't know if it's been formally given one yet) has fruited at Tower Hamlets...
Hi Keir, Long time no hear from. Good to hear that the Agrocybe are up, I doubt they offer much in the culinary dept. I have seen both Amanita rubescens and...
Hi Andy and Keir, You have done better than I, nothing to report at all in my local patch, including an old faithfull spot for St George's which remains bare...
If we are looking for sites in SE London, could I suggest Oxleas wood? I would say this is just as good if not better than Lesnes Abbey wood which we have...
Hi all, Thought it should be about time to extract my digit and get a London Foray File for 2007 up-and-running on the webpage. At the moment the only one for ...
Greetings from SE5! Things are beginning to stir here; promising crop of Horse mushrooms recently. Alas no St George's this year - so far. I found some Small...
Dear All, I hope you have had a good summer. I thought I'd start th3e season off with a report of Hericium cirrhatum in Dulwich woods recently; I have placed a...
ah! as soon as I saw the vernacular name, I remembered it. Is it easy for you to give directions to it, or would I just get hopelessly lost, do you think?...
Hello everyone, I've finally put together the first draft of this year's foray list. It's in the FILES section 'Forays 2007.rtf' or something like that. ...
Dear All, I was sent an image recently of a fungus growing in soil in a greenhouse in central London, any ideas? It is located in "Mark's bits & bobs" folder. ...
Looks to me like two very large brackets of Pleurotus ostreatus, possibly emerging from a fallen log that is hidden by the ferns. Any other suggestions? Ted. ...
Yea possibly Pluerotus, but cannot discount more exotic species, as it is growing in a greenhouse. Omphalotus nidiformis (Australasia) is very similar to an...
Hi folks, That photo sent to Mark sure looks aesthetically pleasing, doesn't it? But I'm not sure it's terribly helpful for ID purposes. Apart from the usual ...
Much more sensible suggestion from Andy. Then again, maybe if Mark eats it and then we check to see if *he* glows in the dark ... Anyway, both thanks and...
