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Spring programme now available
Members will recently have received the Spring progamme. It is also in the calendar. Newsgroup members will receive an email reminder before each meeting.
Extra meeting!
I have just added an extra meeting to the calendar, which was not in our programme - field meeting and BBQ near Berkhamstead on Sunday 15 December. See calendar for further…
Interesting finds at Gobions Wood
Margaret & Steve had some interesting finds at Gobions Wood in the spring, in spite of the dry conditions. Dumontinia tuberosa (Anemone cup):…
Autumn programme now in calendar
Meetings for the rest of the autumn have now been entered into the events calendar (on pc, calendar is bottom right of home page; on tablet / phone, scroll down to bottom).…
Autumn programme
Members should have received our autumn programme. Meetings for September have been entered into the events calendar (on pc, calendar is bottom right of home page; on tablet…
Tropical fungus in Beds?
Last year Alan found a collybioid species in Whipsnade Zoo butterfly house which he tentatively identified with reservations as Gymnopus inodorus. Feeling that it was not…
Scarlet elf cup time
Sarcoscypha austriaca can be found at any time between November and April. It likes wet conditions and especially alder/willow carr and is apparently not worried by snow…
Interesting corticioid worth looking for on conifer wood
Skeletocutis amorpha on an old conifer log at Stockgrove Park. From the top, this looked unremarkable, rather like a Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor) but underneath the…
Sign of winter
We found my very favourite fungus at Waterford Heath on 26 November – The Goblet (Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis), a beautiful, elegant speciality of late…