iNaturalist and social media have shown lots of autumn mushrooms popping up, including the first fly agarics. In south-eastern England we have finally had some rain after a very dry summer. I am so annoyed to have missed UK Fungus Day due to work commitments (no time or energy to do writing, visit woods or take photos) and also I have at least one other mushroom post that hasn’t made it to the surface yet. More mushrooms Posted in Fungi Tagged #FungiFriday, amethyst deceiver, Blusher mushroom, Cortinarius acutus, Fungi, Fungi Friday, Fungi photography, Macro photography, Peaked webcap, Tawny grisette, The Weald, yellow staghorn Fungi □: mushroom days are comingĪt long last some time in the woods! Get ready for a mammoth mushroom post to celebrate the start of the season. If you can, make some time to get out there and find yourself some mushrooms. It’s where the moisture is and therefore where the magic happens. I like the felty-caps of these two friends down among the old holly leaves and sticks.īefore making my way back home I happened upon another gathering of bonnets, again under holly in very shady woodland. The pinkish-hue and appearance of the stipe was enough to suggest to me that it’s a blusher, rather than a grey-spotted amanita. It is quite difficult sometimes to tell the difference between a couple of relatives in this group, including the panther cap and grey-spotted amanitas. This included the undisputed king of looking-like-they-just-burst-through-the-door, tawny grisette.Īnother amanita to be found was this blusher, I think. Some of the more summery mushrooms were there to be found. In this photo you can see a small amount of the webbing which gives this huge family of mushrooms its general name. You can forgive me for seeing their similarity for liberty cap, the magic mushroom. After a bit of research I decided that they are in fact peaked webcap. These tips look a bit like the famous magic Psilocybe mushrooms. On the woodland floor I spotted some very small mushrooms with conical hats. This crew of bonnets were growing in their hundreds. There were more of the typical mushrooms, but mostly in the shaded areas under holly or lower vegetation. This yellow stagshorn was climbing every mountain. This fan of small brackets is the sort of thing you can find all year round. Something that can always be relied upon is a hard-wearing polypore. This brittlegill was exploding onto the scene like the shark from Jaws. In other words, the mushrooms remain small and sparse, but there if you look. The Sussex Weald’s woods look dry still, with heavy rain not yet enough to provide the water for full-on fruiting across the board. Though I have found things to photograph, we are nowhere near a mushroom peak. Perhaps their name also derives from the fact they are hard to see. Herein lies this family’s deception – they are often confusing because they can look so different in anything but colour. I took some photos of them in varying states. I was careful not to step or kneel on them. It was almost black in the shade but on closer inspection it was one of perhaps 100 amethyst deceivers in the local leaf litter.Īs I slowed down upon finding the mushroom, I began to see more and more. I was scanning the path edges along a usual mushroom route I take through this woodland when I spotted a very small, dark mushroom under the birch and holly. They are, of course, deceptive by name but also in their appearance. The question was whether they are as bright as people say, or if that was deceptive. I saw a tweet recently from the editor of the Inkcap Journal about how she could never find these mushrooms. Thankfully, I was able to return from it. Building on the violet webcap theme, I was this time lured down an amethyst deceiver rabbit-hole. The day after last week’s post, I headed back out to another local woodland to check up on the fungal situation.
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