Hazelborough Forest, Silverstone 23rd August 2017

I made my first visit to this large forestry Commission site, not often visited other than dog walkers, much to their shock, as I occasionally emerged from dark trees and undergrowth back to a path on occasion. I would revisit this site several times over the next two months, happy that I had started this early in the season to find fungi in the area. The season started early and I was fortunate to almost accidentally find myself knee deep in fungi. I joined the BMS (British Mycological Society) to record my key findings and have done ever since. This forest or woodland is a mass of quite old conifers and deciduous trees and so the earth has had time to generate mycelium to attach to different species and the results have been spectacular this year for me. Here are a few of the more interesting species I located on this day observing 64 types of fungi in approx 4 hrs.

Russula Albonigra

Clitocybe odora

Calocera furcata - (uncommon)

Lepiota castanea

Amanita porphyria -mature

Otidea onotica

Inocybe splendens var. phaeoleuca (Uncommon)

Lactarius quietus

Russula atropurpurea

Lactarius rufus

Amanita fulva

Lactarius fulvissimus

Tubaria dispersa (Uncommon)

Russula violeipes

Xerocomaellus porosporus