Gary Easton

Mycena haematopus - Burgundydrop Bonnet aka Bleeding Fairy Helmet. They ‘bleed’ when cut or damaged.

Mycena haematopus. Happy Halloween 🎃 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

You should hear what they say about us humans.

🍄🎉 FunDive Bingo!
We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.

🔍🔑Keys on the website!
You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)

Dark blue hardback cover of RHS Fungi for Gardeners on a set of shelves of gardening books in a book shop

Jassy Drakulic standing next to the bookshelves featuring her new book, smiling

Red stained hyphae of nitrous bonnet with pointed ends that bend away from the stem at right angles

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now!
Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK.
Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄
Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems
#fungifriends

For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎

▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...

I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!

cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk

Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus - Cedarwood Waxcap. The ones I've found before didn't have a very strong smell, but this one was intensely perfumed #FungiFriends

Waxcap 16 - Citrine Waxcap (Hygrocybe citrinovirens). Generally an early fruiting species. The conical cap and the usually fibrous stipe are a yellowish green. Gills are pale white. Quite a large dry species, occasionally with hints of orange.

Another of the topnotch Waxcaps is the Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). This year it is fruiting in a smaller size than I normally get here, but that earthy mix of browns and greys and the bright red colour that quickly results from bruising are distinctive.

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That's a new one for me.

An interesting smell of raw potatoes.

Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute #FungiFriends

This long term project sounds like fun and a good idea for future mycologists. It also reflects the fact that many organisms live a lot longer than humans.
sclerotiaproject.org
We need a UK equivalent , but what would we call it?

I'm ever hopeful.

Now that we've been told that he was a tenant farmer I'm wondering why the landlord's agent hasn't been involved. Perhaps I'm taking it too seriously.

On a very small patch of grass next to Silver Birch ,near me.

Did it have the pelargonium (formerly known as geranium) smell?

The beautiful Cortinarius flexipes - Pelargonium Webcap. Lots popping up in the plantations. #FungiFriends

Waxcap 6 - Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus). Can be an incredible variety of colours 😍. Typically starts green and turns dark yellow then to white. Can also be blue through to pink. Is said to always retain some green at the top of the stipe but this isn't always true. Cap and stipe are slimy.

Waxcap 5 - Ballerina Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis). Probably our most iconic waxcap. Cap starts conical and the edges curl up and split. Usually pink but can be apricot through to white.

Somebody described lichens as "fungi with solar panels". Does that mean that mycorrhizal fungi are fungi with much bigger solar panels.

I missed the name change on this one, I was still with cantherellus.

Waxcap 3 - Goblet Waxcap (Hygrocybe lepida). Cap is dry and very scaly, check with lens if unsure but should be obvious. Starts a bit concave and becomes a funnel shape (hence Goblet). Gills are pale and incredibly decurrent. The stipe is also dry, seperating from atypical insipida.

Waxcap 4 - Crimson Waxcap (Hygrocybe punicea). A very good indicator of high continuity unimproved grasslands. Distinctive deep red cap, fading to yellowish and very nodulose when young. Stem is thick and fibrillose. Our largest red species.

Waxcap 2 - Toasted Waxcap (Cuphophyllus colemannianus). Generally restricted to calcareous grasslands. Beautiful brown cap (hence toasted), pale stipe, decurrent gills and very distinctive interconnected veins between them.

Waxcap 1- Yellowfoot Waxcap (Cuphophyllus flavipes).
Named for the yellow base to the stipe. Cap is a beautiful purple grey, gills are a paler grey with a decurrent gill attachment. I find it to be one of the early fruiting species.

Debbie's come back to run Home Farm.

Honey fungus ,Armilleria sp. probably mellea around the eagle on Fishchowter lane,Totnes this morning.