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jp



Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire
PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 13 9:08 pm    Post subject: Still loads out there Reply with quote
    

Went for a forage today - tons of winter chanterelles, hedgehog mushrooms & ceps. Still tons out there - its amazing! Best season we've had for years

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Tony_C



Joined: 26 Oct 2013
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 13 10:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Still loads out there Reply with quote
    

jp wrote:
Went for a forage today - tons of winter chanterelles, hedgehog mushrooms & ceps. Still tons out there - its amazing! Best season we've had for years


Wow. I think I'm a bit late to the mushrooms this year. (also new to this forum - Hi everyone btw! )
@jp I notice from your profile you're in Salisbury. Is that where you are finding those lovely looking mushrooms? I sometimes head down that way (I'm near Bristol). I went for a rummage around Grovely Wood near Salisbury about a week ago but it looked pretty bare. No ceps, just a lot of fly agaric!

jp



Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire
PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 13 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Tony - welcome Grovely woods don't do ceps though I've found Bay Boletes, Shaggy Parasols, The Prince, Horse mushrooms, & tons of Wood Blewits (yummy - but a little early yet).

Tony_C



Joined: 26 Oct 2013
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 13 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks JP. I've found parasols and shaggy parasols closer to home and v. delicious they were too. Looking forward to Blewits (presumably when it gets colder).

jp



Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire
PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 13 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Tony, yes winter is usually when I've found Blewits. Funnily enough the only place in my area I've found parasols is in Grovely - shame really because I love them.

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45377
Location: yes
PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 13 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

got 4 blewits in york today

jp



Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 302
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire
PostPosted: Wed Oct 30, 13 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Field Blewits or Wood Blewits?

bubble



Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 13 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

got lots of blewits yesterday but have trouble down loading ,keeps saying name of file not found.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon
PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 13 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lots of clouded funnels about here, and did see someone collecting them yesterday, but the mixed reviews about edibility make me suspect.

DorsetScott



Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth
PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 13 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Still no blewitts for me

Jamanda, why not just try a little. You never know, you may like them.

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 13 11:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I really need to go on a guided fungi forage......

I have loads of mushies growing here but darent eat anything.

DorsetScott



Joined: 23 Oct 2011
Posts: 500
Location: Bournemouth
PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 13 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's a good attitude to take LLP! There are a few mushrooms you should be able to identify using books alone, but I guess half the battle is knowing which ones these are in the first place. I guarantee if you find a hedgehog mushroom you'll know it's a hedgehog though, definitely no mistaking that!!

Have a search on t'interweb, there are a few forays put on each year by the wildlife trust which are usually cheap Link (looks like there's one tomorrow at Carrick and one on the 16th at Restormel, don't know how close they are to you) and I think the Lost Gardens of Helligan normally do foraging things.

Cost effective way of learning mushrooms (although probably better for next year) could also be to join the local mushroom group (sure there'll be a Cornwall Fungus Group). Membership for the year isn't normally too expensive, and there will be a fair few walks which don't cost anything.

Stewy



Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 12, 13 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Found my first ever winter chanterelles on Sunday, mega chuffed!



bubble



Joined: 13 Apr 2008
Posts: 960

PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 13 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

loads of geotropas as well

fungi2bwith



Joined: 08 Nov 2007
Posts: 167
Location: NE Hants
PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 13 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Loads of winter chanterelles here too. Also some normal chanterelles, geotropa, wood blewits and horse mushrooms. Not many boletes left though.

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