Fungi Fun
As a woodland manager and worker, I get to see some pretty amazing natural sights, the problem is I’m not always the best at capturing them.
This Blog ‘Fungi Fun’ is about the Fungi of the woodland I work in here in Hampshire. Our woodland (owned by the family) is 64 acres of Semi-natural Ancient Woodland in the Southdown’s National park. for more information take a look at the website
I have tried to identify as many as possible but in some cases, it is just the general family as they are hard to identify.
Woodland fungi
British woodland is teaming with life all year round you just have to know where to look, in the Spring and Summer it is quite obvious or so you would think but many people pass by some of the most beautiful plants.
But what of the Autumn and winter? well if you take the path less trodden and look in some of the hidden places you will find some of the most amazing sights.
Saying you need to look on those hidden away places, this Fungi (cauliflower family) is growing in plain sight on a Dead Beech tree that we have had monolithed (topped to make safe)
In another part of the woods we find these mushrooms living on a fallen beech limb, one of the mycena family or bonnet mushrooms
Old tree stumps are always a good place to look for fungi, these Mushrooms were growing on an old oak stump.