Posted: Sun Nov 07, 04 3:40 pm Post subject: What's good this week (second week in November, '04)
Had a productive forage yesterday.
Lots of shaggy parasols.
More field blewits than you can shake a stick at. More than you can shake an entire branch at, in fact. Blewits everywhere.
Horse mushrooms
Field mushrooms
Agaricus macrosporus
Common funnel caps
Assorted Pluteus
Two sorts of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus and P. cornucopieae)
Fairy ring mushrooms (although they are a bit wormy now)
Little puffballs
Clouded agarics (which ARE NOT EDIBLE according to recent books).
Also saw masses and masses of yellow stainers.
Still a few lingering blackberries, but they're way past their best now. Some apples still on the trees, got some lovely ripe red ones.
Also found lots of greens. Some new fresh growth of garlic mustard, and, oddly, what I think was a stand of Welsh onions growing wild.
I found time for a lunchtime stroll today, which netted me more shaggy parasols, some Agaricus langei, and some more wood blewits. Also evident were lots of Clitocybe nebularis, a mushroom of dubious edibility that I might never have tried had I checked in a modern book before doing so (apparently they cause gastric upsets in some people, so the consensus view as to whether they're really edible has changed).
Found two superb oyster mushrooms on a log that I was sitting on at lunchtime, just on the fenland on the outskirts of the city centre. Dirty great big things.
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