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Hi all, Bit of a flyer, this one, but let's see if it gets off the ground. With last Sunday's GHFF having turned up its best collection of edible mushrooms for...
Hi keir, How goes it? You had a good edible fungi foray last weekend, good stuff!! I have seen the new River Cottage mushroom book, quite a few people have...
Strange to find you all talking about the River Cottage book. I've just returned from an outing where I found a tenner flapping along the gutter, followed soon...
Good choices all. My favourites in order are: 1. Saffron milkcap collected under spruce. Actually L. deterrimus, therefore false saffron milkcap every time I...
Hi all, Next Wednesday for a jaunt to Trent Park where the waxcaps are currently in full fruit. Aim to visit the waxcap lawns around the old house plus a ...
Hi Keir, I'm free of Kenwood now, so could make Wednesday for a meet, not sure of where the cafe is? I may well drive there. Regards Andy ... From: "Keir...
Hi everyone I'd like add a bit of background on this, since Keir has generously extended the invitation to all of us. I also want to convey warm personal...
How went the foray at Trent Park? I am leading a small foray at the Islington Ecology centre- Gillespie Park on Sunday at 11.30 am. All welcome. Ted. ... From:...
Hi Ted, thanks for your interest. I'm sure we all found our return to Trent Park richly rewarding, though I want to be careful not to pre-empt anyone's else's...
Mark Spencer from the Natural History Musem is taking at Fungi Foray around this London Wildlife Trust Site details as follow is Meet at 14:00hrs Sydenham Hill...
Hi all and especially Giles as a welcome to the group, The handsome, golden-yellow-pored bolete brought along to Sydenham on Sunday from Wells Park and which...
I found this a hard one to ID because the Key in my guide (Michael Jordan) led me a little astray on the spore colour. It was rich brown but with hints of...
Spore colour is shown as rich brown in B&K; all other visual features of the pictures you have posted match what I can find for Pholiota gummosa. The spores...
Hi Ted B&K??? Yes, rich brown is a better description, certainly. Habitat was a red herring as well... I found both sets of specimens along the damp western...
B&K stands for J.Breitenbach and F.Kranzlin "Fungi of Switzerland" now in 6 volumes. Covers most of the macrofungi of our area with excellent colour photos,...
Hi Ted Nice one. B&K at around £80 per volume. That's my Christmas and birthday presents sorted for the next six years. I was always wary of hand drawn...
Hi. Anyone thinking of going on this foray? It's near Challock(!?) which is rather far... Still... Giles [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Here are a few thoughts on reference books: -- B&K: It seems that the great and the good are not too impressed by vol 6. I understand it was completed...
Pat, I agree entirely with regard to the Bon field guide, far better in my opinion to the Courticuisse book, which as you say has too many species, which...
Hi all, Nice pics of the Pholiota gummosa - good shots of cap, stipe and gills, all of which are necessary for even a half-decent stab at an ID from a photo ...
2 weeks' ago I bought the French Bon paperback in Paris Natural History Museum shop (didn't go into the museum as there were 1000's of children around...
Further to Giles' observations below, here's what Spooner & Roberts have to say in their 'Fungi' in the Collins New Naturalist series: "Commonly, asci mature...
Thanks for that bit of mycological erudition, Keir. Can't say I heard the puffing but then there is a lot of traffic round the Memorial Garden. If I'm brutally...
Yep, I've got Spooner. Didn't think to have a look in it for info on ascomycota spore release, of course. That'll teach me. As for the expense of all those...
Thanks for the suggestion Ingrid. I wonder how much of an advance the new edition is on the old one which had excellent sketches of the spores drawn to a scale...
Ooooh, really tempting but sorry not possible to join you this time. Already got something booked (indoors, nice and warm). Look forward to reading your...
