Hamadryads fungus diary

[David Humphries]

Peziza are cute, then I'm the best part of a bottle of Pinot grigio to the good, so all fung takes on a pixie like niceness

 

 

What was the heavily decayed substrate they're on ?

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Beech David, i seem to find a lot of this one on beech, never seen it on anything else in fact?

 

Im so desperate to get to some new habitats, i need new grounds. i did find a new one today at ashridge though, P. cilliatus got the full set of polypores now!

 

P. brumalis

tuberaster

squamosus

cilliatus

badius

 

corking

[Bundle 2]

Bulgaria inquinans.....great composition!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Why thank you good sir!- just for you mr bundle a little more of the black bulgar. The best ones ive ever seen, some up to 4 inches across approx!

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

seconds a stonkingly good portrayal of type

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

seconds a stonkingly good portrayal of type

 

 

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You know me fella, always looking for that "architype"

 

One of the things that set me on this journey was the lack of decent images in books I read and wanted to provide better illustrations.

 

that goal is pretty much futile as it turned out, as there is no architypes with fungi, as you know.

 

What really did suprise me was the wild fluctuations in descriptions versus real world, especialy size wise. Find a healthy well fed optimal form and it will be twice if not more than the books describe in proportions.

 

Long before I was into this, say in my twenties, i fished on an estate river, in the woods i found an olf fallen chestnut. On its stump was a huge fungus, and i mean MASSIVE, today i would have recognised it straight away, as Rigidiporus, i still seek a similar vision, it keeeps me going strong, one day i will pull over in some random wood, like thos dyadeus we found, and see something else that is out of the ordinary.

 

I wonder if people have the slightest idea just how addictive that aspect becomes?

[David Humphries]

one day i will pull over in some random wood, like thos dyadeus we found, and see something else that is out of the ordinary.

 

I wonder if people have the slightest idea just how addictive that aspect becomes?

 

Nah !

 

the world of a fung nerd is a pretty small place, inhabited by a very small number of very odd people.

 

 

Glad I've never come across any

 

 

 

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[Andy Collins]

I did see a large collection of Clitocybe (geotropa I think) beneath some pines yesterday, and they were certainly a lot larger than others I've seen in previous years. If i'd known they were edible at the time, the pan would have been on the stove with some butter and garlic for an impromptu feast. Also pulled a nice sized puffball for tea, they eat rather well when young. I like this fungus thing, could quite get into it:biggrin:

[David Humphries]

be careful not to eat any really rare ones though Andy, or me & the Hamma may pay ya a visit to dissect ya to get to the spore

 

Happy eating

 

Plenty of young Fistas around at the mo, worth getting the frying pan out

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

A fungi less post! an ash from two years ago, fruiting A. mellea, now? its moved onward, and doing well, the ash has a cavity forming, and you can be certain its the Mellea, but its not a one way ticket, the ash has dealt with it:001_cool: