Ironically the drought has been continuing but today was miserably wet. And there were hardly any fungi. I rarely come to Beckenham Place Park but I think that will change in the future. It’s parkland with a long, uninterrupted history and so should be good for mushrooms. But not today. Apart from the species I photographed there were some other commoners – Beefsteak Fungus, Clouded Agaric and Sulphur Tuft.
Hen of the Woods I’ve seen here before, and I cut a lump of this one to take home and eat. It has a mild bland flavour but a rather nice crisp texture. The unidentified mushroom (#2) is one I think I’ve seen and failed to identify on another site before – it should be a Bonnet but doesn’t fit with any of them, but perhaps also could be a Greyling. Shaggy Bracket I’ve probably seen before and not recorded. I generally don’t take much interest in big brackets but I think I’ll start paying more attention and try to record them all. I assumed this was a Beefsteak Fungus when I first saw it, and took some pictures because of its large size, but spore size was completely wrong and also appearance when I looked again.