A recent photo from a Beds wood. Always worth looking at the underside of brackets. This is the Birch mazegill, similar to the rarer Oak mazegill, but occurs on birch, has a thinner fruitbody and thinner-walled slitlike pores.
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Some spring fungi
By Pat Cavanagh
/ April 25, 2023
Sarcosphaera coronata (Violet crowncup) Morchella esculenta (Morel) After a slow start, it looks like a good year for some of...
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Spring programme
By Pat Cavanagh
/ April 25, 2023
Our Spring programme is now in the calendar on the Home Page. Members should have received a copy by email.
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Interesting bracket on birch
By Pat Cavanagh
/ November 13, 2022
A recent photo from a Beds wood. Always worth looking at the underside of brackets. This is the Birch mazegill,...
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Cheery autumn fungus
By Pat Cavanagh
/ November 12, 2022
A welcome sight at Bricket Wood a couple of weeks ago, Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) with a beautiful frilly ring,...
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Autumn programme
By Pat Cavanagh
/ August 27, 2022
The autumn programme has just been added to the calendar on the home page
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Spring programme
By Pat Cavanagh
/ March 17, 2022
Our spring programme is now in the calendar. Members should have received a copy.
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Sandy siltball
By Pat Cavanagh
/ December 7, 2021
The strange fungus Battarrea phalloides was found near Ware in early December. Previously very rare, it is now turning up...
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Sandy RSPB reserve meeting – changed arrangements
By Pat Cavanagh
/ October 24, 2021
This year, at the request of the RSPB, this meeting is for HBFG members only, and pre-booking with Alan Outen...
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A new Beds record
By Pat Cavanagh
/ September 25, 2021
The group found Mycena rhenana on an old alder cone at Flitwick Moor last weekend, which is a new species...
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