Hello everyone, It's spring and the sun's shining even if the weather people still swear we're going to get snow and ice for Easter! Herts Fungi Group have...
Whilst I was scribbling my previous note, I had an email from Honia at LWT Camley Street sitting in my inbox. So, please pencil in confirmation of this date....
OK great. I am still diligently looking for Sclerotinia tuberosa in the sea of celandine and wind flower in the woods on my way to work but with no luck so...
Happy Easter! I've uploaded 5 photos of a Cortinarius (I think!) which I found 2 days' ago inside our terracotta 'toad home' next to the pond in the garden...
Rushing in where angels fear to tread may I suggest Cortinarius (Telamonia) obtusus, the only spring fruiting species of the subgenus Telamonia. The cap dries...
Hi Ingrid, Sure looks Corty, doesn't it? We could hide behind the oft-expressed injunction with Cortinarius that multiple specimens of all ages are needed to...
Hi- Is the Trent Park Foray definately going ahead? I am a new member, who doesn't know much about funghi I've been on one foray. I wondered if its okay to...
Yes the foray is definitely going ahead. It is in the LNHS calendar (but you don't have to be a member of LNHS) as well as being advertised on this group. All...
Hi Ted, Keir et al, Thanks for your responses to my Corty 'toad stool' (hahaha, love it!). I did have a serious sniffing session when I picked it - I'm afraid...
Tree roots can reach many metres beyond the canopy of the associated tree. The note Keir found in FRDBI is very relevant. Probably people do what I did, which...
I'm never quite sure how seriously to take the fruiting season. Obviously its one clue amongst many, but I've been finding all sorts of things that shouldn't...
Thanks very much Ted, Sorry I just found your response! It took me a while to work out how to use Yahoo properly. I'm still coming, ( friends unfortunately not...
When I dissected it last week, there were already maggot thingies squirming out from poor Corty. I checked the Kew info about sending in specimens (never done...
Now about those maggots. One or more of the 400 fungus gnats that infest fruiting bodies which would be of interest to the guys at NHM which you could send to...
Hello- As I was walking a long the river in Oxford, by the path, I saw growing out the trunk a willow tree a lovely looking fungus. I wondered if anybody could...
Hi Dalya, Sounds right to me. Have you checked what you saw against any of the books, or tried putting "laetiporus sulphureus" into Google Images and checking...
Yes, I have enjoyed the supremacy of nature over tarmac (and Southwark) over recent years in Hankey Gardens. Did you notice all the holes in the tarmac where...
I went to the organic farmers market in Stoke Newington Church Street this morning and the mushroom seller there had a tub full of nice fresh-looking chicken...
If anyone wants to see what the wholesalers have, get down to Borough Market on Weds to Sat and check out Booths right at the back, just off Stoney St. They...
In the cafe at Trent Park on Sunday I chose the fuselli with wild fungi. It is known that the restaurateur collects from the Park and to very good effect as...
... Thanks for the response and advice- From Pavement Fungus to Borough Market.. I went back to Oxford this weekend, had another look at the willow tree's...
Now is the time to inform you that about 5 to 20% (authors vary) of the population have a strong and unpleasant reaction to chicken of the woods. Clearly you...
Hi, I'm trying to tell as many fungi fans as possible about an event I'm taking part in. On the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Anthony Gormley is...
... Hi Martha, How brave and fantastic. I wish I could make it along to give you some support but unfortunaly won't be able to get along there for that time,...
Hi Andy, thanks for the message. It is indeed a most unsociable hour, I'll be very impressed indeed if anyone does make it down! There will be photos from it...
Dear Martha, What a brilliant and truly original way of spreading the word about fungi! We missed you at the BMS fungal taxonomy day at Kew last year. Lynne...
Sorry- Couldn't help the above OTT alliteration. Martha- It sounds a great opportunity. I applied myself for a spot on the plinth, but didn't get it. As well...
Hi all, A friend has found what he has identified as an Inonotus Dryadeus on an oak at his child's school, and would like to know how much damage it is likely...
Hi Jo, Well, how long is a piece of string? And there are plenty of tree surgeon-types who make it their business to know a darn sight more about bracket fungi...
