Author: John

 

A quick walk down to our favourite spot yeilded a full collecting box in 10 mins. A bit of a surprise for this time of year but lots

Cap: 6.5 cm Cream/beige colour, dark cracking with age Gills: Adnate, crowded, pale grey/beige when young turning brown with age Spores: brown, 12 x 6.8 um Veil: present

ID: The Silky Rosegill, Volvariella bombycina Cap: pale to lemon yellow, up to 12 – 30 cm diameter, covered in fine hair. Broadly convex with flattened area in

Next we have a Coprinus..probably lagopus, the Hare’s Foot Inkcap. Habitat: leaf litter, wood chip

A quick walk this afternoon netted us some species we haven’t found this year.. First are these striking yellow fungi growing in leaf litter, wood chips. Smell: faint

      This looks like the same species we fould last year at another location. It was growing on wood chips (probably rhodedendron as many have been

Large examples of Dryad’s saddle (Polyporus squamosus) near the north lodge.