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Hi, does anyone (everyone but me?) know what time they are meeting at Trent Park cafe tomorrow? Thanks, Mary [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Attached, initial list from Trent Park foray pm 14.10.07 from ID session at the cafe before we all went our separate ways. Ted has further specimens for ID...
List included below in body of message as it looks like defences ate the attachment originally sent... H. Agrocybe rivulosa Amanita muscaria Bolbitius...
We're having wonderful fruitings of Parasol mushrooms - Macrolepiota procera - in the grassy areas on the edge of our local woodland (Abbey Wood) just in the...
Dear All, As the Trent Park foray on Sunday produced such a good quantity of interesting material, Keir & I have decided to pay it another visit later this...
Dear Mary, Yes, I expect we will still be there. We'll meet you at the Cafe at 1.30. Mark Home: 72 Michael Cliffe House, Skinner Street, London, EC1R 0WX ...
Hi all, With this species (Wrinkled Fieldcap for a Recommended English Name, surely?) taking over piles of woodchip countrywide - there has been a continuous...
Ok, it's North American, but accompanied by fascinating information & links about Species definition. It's all to do with sexual reproduction...in this case...
Glad you are still with us. Most people might have waited for the research to be done first. All I can contribute is the knowledge that apparently it is...
Dear All, Some you who may not have come across the following: http://mycology.cornell.edu/ website. It is a marvellous 1-stop resource for all sorts of things...
Agreed. This, and the latest of Ingrid's postings of wonderful fungi pics from the Botany Picture of the Day website earlier today reminded me again of how...
Hi Keir, I think that you took a reasonable but brave chance with this, as species within the genus Agrocybe have only been reported to contain Psylocybin, as ...
Hi everyone, Here's a little story which might amuse. Not strictly about a London fungus and yet our brave city was its place of revelation. Visited Snowdonia...
Did you see the "Nature of Britain" programme on BBC2 last Wednesday? It had a speeded up sequence of fungi growing on cow dung - very spectacular! Hilary ... ...
Friends of Greenwich Park fungus foray is this Friday - 26th October - at 11am. Meet at Blackheath Gate. Mary [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi, After a couple of very interesting days foraying at Trent Park I have place a selection of images of the fungi seen on "bits and bobs from Mark", these...
If anyone fancies venturing into the depths of Sarf Larndon, a few of us (so far myself, Mark Spencer, Keir, and Jen) are having a look round Beckenham Place...
For several days I have been watching a group of mushrooms, growing in rings on short grass in Ruskin Park. None are more than 5 cm across, and none have...
Nice pictures but still a bit short on the crucial detail for a firm identification. Can you cut a more mature specimen in half and photograph that as close up...
Hi Hilary, I know It seems obvious but have you discounted A. xanthodermus? Andy ... growing in ... across, ... white ... rings ... cap; ... are ... aniseed. ...
Hi Hilary, Yes, I did see this programme and was enthralled by its rare focus on cow dung - definitely flavour of the month! The clusters of little bright...
Thanks, Ted & Andy I have added some more pics of the specimens. Most of them are now destroyed; just one is left growing in its natural state! However the ...
Thanks Ted; I'd wondered about that. Are the gills pink enough? I'm not familiar with campestris as we don't have much pasture land around here and I've never...
As the great RWG Dennnis pointed out years ago (in Fungi of South East England) identification of Agaric species is rather subjective. I think he was politely...
Well ... up to a point, Lord Copper. A very accessible starting point for this genus is Peter Marren's article in British Wildlife, August 2003 (vol.14, no.6...
This is getting a bit beyond me! I have got some spores and dried specimens, and when I saw them this morning there were 2 intact specimens, still not open. I...
