2010 has been a strange year for fungi. It started with the coldest winter since 1963, which was followed, at least in the south east corner of the UK, by the driest summer in living memory. This meant an exceptionally poor off-season. September saw an explosion in fungi and for a while it looked like 2010 would rival 2009 as a classic year for mushrooms. We were then hit by a couple of weeks of December-like weather in the middle of October and most of the autumn species never recovered from the shock.
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