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31st Aug 08

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It can sometimes be surpring what you find when you look locally. I live very near Ludshot Common(Hampshire) and have been round it many times. It has generally been very spares for fungi mainly due (in my view) to the fact it is extremely sandy and dry.

However - my view of the place has changed today. I wish I had been round there a few days ago as the fungi I found were mostly on the their last legs but there had obviously been a huge spurt of fungie growth during the last few days.

I have given pictures below of just a few of the fungi I saw - the ground was carpeted in some areas where the grond was mossy and damp. I found a lot of wild mushrooms (and some of the best of the trip) along the verges of the rutten lanes that lead to the common (if you approcah it via Headley Down). There are a few rutten lanes there with really old land where houses have been buit but ancient areas of mossy ground still remain.

I often wonder what that part of the common would have been like had some of the properties not been built - however actually owning a house in Headley Down (as I do) is a joy and I am not critising it - but I do think it would (if left undeveloped) have been the flip side of the main common as we know it today. Ludshot, as I said earlier, is very dry, I think the sloping downward gradient just off the common, where the houses adjoin would have been a wonderful mossy, slightly damp or maybe boggy contrast to the drier upper common. - Still, one can only wonder.

Anyway - enough of the rambling, below are the photos:

Wild Mushrooms Hampshire Cow Bolete

This one is a beuty! it is a Cow Bolete - Suillus Bovinus. You can clearly see the curl in the cap which reminds one of a cows tongue. The cap was very slimey as it had been raining. This one is a cracker - really big. They do not normally grow about 7cm across - this one was 10cms!!

This slug is having a wonderful time- the slug was about 5 inches long!

This one is a lovely young Shaggy Mane Ink cap- Coprinus Comatus - very edible but i did not eat it as I wanted to be sure of its identification first - som emore were coming up so I might pop back once I can be sure

Wonderful cep- looks like a pine bolete

Look at the width of this fat boy! it is really fat at the base - it would have looked superb before it got past it

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Wild Mushroom Identification - Recommended Books for All Skill Levels:
Every amateur mycologist should have a decent library of books, here are the top five books I highly recommend for wild mushroom identification:

1) Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe - Great layout with superb images - Peter Jordan

2) Mushroom Picker's Foolproof Field Guide - A good all round book - Peter Jordan

3) The Mushroom Book - This one is a proper belter with loads and loads of good technical data - Thomas Laessoe

4) Complete Mushroom Book: The Quiet Hunt - A lovely book by a lovely man. Antonio Carluccio

5) The River Cottage Handbook - Mushrooms - Always a favourite from Hugh's fungi specialist friend, John Wright

It is important to have at least 3 books so you can cross reference and cover as many species as possible

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