Hamadryad- trees, ecology & FUNGI!

[sloth]

Sound as a pound

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

O.K Sloth And Warren, see you at 9 at Hatfield, give us a ring if you cant see me 07703464771. Im out tonight so wont be online.

 

Its going to be a good hunt guys, wipe your SD cards, and charge your batteries, were gonna need em!

 

Epping is alive, and the russulas are out in force so Hatfield should be rocking too

[sloth]

Looking forward to it

[Warren Stirling]

Fantastic. Looking forward to it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

David Moore's World of Fungi: where mycology starts

[sloth]

Thanks to Tony for the recent bimble with Warren Hatfield didnt have much going on so we went off to Epping. I took a camera I was unfamiliar with so of the few images I took here are the most 'acceptable'! There is Polyporous tuberaster (I think, sorry Tony if that's wrong!), Gano on beech, stink horn, beech wood wart, Meripilus on beech, Amanita pantherina, and a little unknown shroomy I started the day spying while I had my morning coffee

I dont know what images Warren got, but Im sure Tony will add his snaps of some lovely cuticularis, fissilis, and Laeti on hornbeam among others.

One other question if I may, while having a wonder with the family yesterday I stumbled upon a pure white Amanita in oak woodland, under birch. It smelt pleasant but not very strong, and had no velum scales on the cap, which wasnt yet fully expanded (the veil was just starting to break), around 6 inches tall and fairly slender. First thoughts were destroying angel but Collins says coniferous woodland, any other suggestions?

[David Humphries]

Hope you had a nose peg for the stink horn close up

 

 

 

 

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[sloth]

Sorry scrap that, destroying angel in mixed woodland, uncommon and most frequently found in Scotland. Another option could be phalloides var alba, although I wouldn't know one from the other

And yes it stank!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sorry scrap that, destroying angel in mixed woodland, uncommon and most frequently found in Scotland. Another option could be phalloides var alba, although I wouldn't know one from the other

And yes it stank!

 

I think your description was fine, no doubt the dark but angelic looking angel of death!

[sloth]

Cheers for that, it couldn't have looked like a more perfect mushroom to be honest. Not a blemish on it...