There’s several items on my 2014 Fungal Action Plan:
- Enhance the website.
- Do much more with spore pictures and measurements.
- Venture out more in Spring and Summer, not just Autumn.
- Put effort into a proper survey of fungi in Ladywell Fields.
- Become proficient in photoing mushrooms with new camera (Woo-hoo…, it’s an Olympus E-M5.)
So for a start I made a serious effort to find some St. Georges Mushrooms. (I’ve only found them once before – outside Wickes in Catford a few years ago, growing on a scrappy verge.) Traditionally it appears on St Georges day – 23rd April. This year the weather was quite dry for a week or two in mid April, but then it rained on the 20th and following days, so on the Friday I took a day in Cobham Park trying to find one. No luck, unfortunately. And nothing outside Wickes either. Maybe the extremely mild winter has confused it?
I did find three mushrooms of marginal quality. The Golden Scalycap was rather decrepit, but still it’s the first time I’ve seen it. The Cramp Ball is something I often see, and this time decided to take a picture.