The Fung Hunters

[Xerxses]

So this is the result of the morrow.

 

Hericium erinaceus on 'Oak'

 

Not Kew Id'd, but the length of the spines are the give away & good enough for me.

 

most certainly a first for me, and based upon records, a first for the area.

 

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Brilliant!!!! At peak too:thumbup: I missed it...

[David Humphries]

Brilliant!!!! At peak too:thumbup: I missed it...

 

You probably walked right under it, ya blind bat

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

"It's" ! try 6 clumps !!!!

 

Yeah, not 100% on the Hazel groups, but to be honest I couldn't give a flying fu.....ngal, as it simply pales in to insignificance under the awesomeness of the erinaceus.

 

Andy can't believe it was just sitting there under his nose on his patch unnoticed

 

Rather pleased with this one for sure.

 

 

Been an absoloutely stonking year for the fung.

 

 

A roller coaster ride of entertainment & learning

 

 

 

The "eye" (as you will appreciate, is getting honed more & more as the months glide by.

 

I bet next year will be even beter.

 

I know what you mean, im sure i only see more as i know more, as years go by and the obsession gets worse im picking out tiny fungi that i just would never have noticed before.

 

As arbs i think we probably came at mycology via the opposite end of the spectrum, at the monsters rather than the tiny gilled ones, i think this may explain why mycologists generaly seem to have little experience of the tree dwellers, the ones that live above thier heads when looking through macro eyes to the ground.

 

Our world is through a different set of eyes, and a different temperal zone entirely, the life of the canopy, the temperate rain forests:thumbup:

 

Im sure forest will be along shortly to pull me up on part of that comment!

[Ben Ballard]

amazing shots of the hericium monkey d great find:thumbup1:

[David oakman]

Wow David a bearded tooth what a find:thumbup1:

 

Ben nice to hear you have some nice fungi on your estate as many have said before this forum is good at bringing people together:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

even january sees the dedicated fung hunters out in the woods!

 

Phelinus igniarius-

 

Sean and the Hama do richmond park:001_cool:

 

 

[David Humphries]

Tree-mendous effort chaps.

 

couple of good ones for the gallaries of fungiacs, there

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

i thought these belonged here:001_cool:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[janey]

I love piccy #4: while eveyone elses' backs are turned you can't help but sneak off to get another photo.

 

Looks like a really ggod day.

[bats-n-trees]

i thought these belonged here:001_cool:

 

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Hama,

which is the oldest of the three .The fungi, the remains of the tree, or the remains of the humanoid going under the alias of bats-n-trees ?