I met up with a few of what Belinda calls my ‘fungi friends’ for a foray on the Earsham Estate in south Norfolk on Tuesday. Many thanks to Jeremy for organising and for a warm welcome from our host Nick Meade.
We concentrated our efforts of Big Wood (erroneously called Great Wood on Ordnance Survey maps!) and the adjacent America Wood followed by The Lay about 2km to the south.
Conditions in the woods were very dry despite the reasonable amounts of rain recently. This affected the volume of fruiting bodies but we still managed to find Collared Earthstar, Golden Scalycap, Trooping Funnel, Conical Brittlestem, Magpie Inkcap, Beefsteak Fungus, Blueing Bracket, Peeling Oysterling, Roundspored Oysterling, Wet Rot, Hairy Leaf Parachute, Blushing Milkcap, Grooved Bonnet, Burgundydrop Bonnet and Splitgill amongst others.
Cutting our losses we decided to try The Lay, a small mere surrounded by willow scrub and oak with a large wet ‘drawdown’ area. This proved much more fruitful. Initially an area of burnt ground gave us Bonfire Greyling and Charcoal Goldeneye then in the damper areas a flood of goodies including Lakeside Webcap, Hollow Milkcap, Sticky Scalycap, Tiger Sawgill, Firerug Inkcap, Golden Scalycap, Spectacular Rustgill, Common Grey Disco and Oldcrab Brittlegill.
Following that a we made a quick visit to nearby Outney Common so I could show everyone ‘my’ Russula subrubens and while there we also scored with the usual Blushing Milkcaps and the unusual Trooping Webcap.
As ever, many thanks to Jeremy and Yvonne for their hard work confirming the id’s with microscopy etc at home.
Bonfire Greyling
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