The Natural History Museum has just relaunched it's annual Bluebell Survey. If you have the time, please go out and record your observations or encourage...
Spring seems to be here at last although heavy rain is predicted for tomorrow. Hope to see some of you there; meet by the large Golden statue under the...
Subject: [londonfungi] First foray of the new season tomorrow- Hyde Park Hi Ted just to confirm that I will open up RF at 6.30 (or just before) on Monday -...
Thanks David, I will be at the Albert Memorial rain or shine this morning. Actually ithe weather doesn't look too bad just now. Maybe we will have to...
Hi Ted, Due to temporary insanity, I forgot about this morning's meeting. I will be at RF tomorrow though. Regards, Mark Home: 72 Michael Cliffe House, Skinner...
Dear Mark, We wondered if you were OK but am relieved that it was just a case of missed appointment. We had 11 forayers and found about 10 species, includinjg...
I found a HUGE lepista nuda in February in Biggin Wood which is one of the bits of ancient woodland in South London. It was very nice getting together with...
...which we were using to surface woodland trail in Lordship Rec yesterday...loads and loads of Peziza vesiculosa, a bouquet of Agrocybe rivulosa, and a rather...
Hello everyone, Just a bit of a promo for an evening walk round Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, this Wednesday coming for a couple of hours, starting...
Alick Henrici has again kindly agreed to lead our foray, on 12th October 2008 at 2pm, meeting at the reserve entrance just opposite Chiswick Park tube in Bollo...
Hi everyone I found these (Album- Ruskin Park) recently on bare gound under an old yew. They seem to fit A silvaticus but have inrolled margins; caps up to...
... Certainly not Agaricus silvaticus Hilary, I would say something far less common, which though can only be ascertained by peering down the barrel of a...
Hi Hilary (and everyone) Eeeh, tricky. Definitely Agaricus, not sylvaticus. From photo3, I see a thin velar sock, so any ring would have been ascending rather...
Many thanks Andy & Keir. I'd considered A maleolens from C&D; the habitat does seem to fit but I was put off by the inrolled margin. It certainly didn't smell...
Many thanks for this. Absorbing in itself but also an opportunity to see if this "reply" gets through to our group after recent computer blips. Moment of truth...
 Yippe, it worked! Warmest thanks to Keir for his guidance through a strange technical anomaly. But things seem to have righted themselves without my...
I thought I would alert you all to our event in November: Earthwatch Debate: Irreplaceable - the World's Most Invaluable Species Thursday 20th November,...
HELP NEEDED - I have a PhD student from the University of St Andrews visiting me at the Natural History Museum who is studying the biology of Senecio...
Thanks, it sounds fun. I will try to get along there. However despite being a fungophile I have yet to be convinced that they are under threat in any way since...
Hi all, I'm typing this as it's mizzling outside - warm, wet weather like we've had so far this year could mean a bumper mushroom season in the offing and we...
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Hello everyone, To say that I've updated this year's foray file (Files section on the webpage, Forays 2008.rtf) with one in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park that...
Hi all, Apparently it's going to be very warm and muggy tomorrow, and there's a chance of another mini-heatwave mid-month, so please keep your eyes peeled for...
I shall head for the Highgate Woods chip pile today. According to this article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_subrufescens ) on Wikipedia of all...
... Just to keep you up to date on said A. subrufescens from Highgate. A collection has been dried, written up and is awaiting deposit at Kew by myself in the...
Hi, our trusty old friend the Podoscypha under the oak near the cafe(along the main path from the Cockfosters gate )has sprouted 2 sizeable clumps over the...
Dear Helen, A picture of same from a past year appears as the background to a short piece about recording fungi in the current issue of the LWT newsletter. ...
Just back from Trent Park - Podoscypha multizonata popping up around the three trees we know from previous years...plus a new find. Cafpod = oak near cafe now...
