New forest

wildherbalian85 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 04:42 PM

Hi was wondering if anybody has been down to The New Forest recently, and whether the panther caps and fly agarics have started to show themselves???

Stewy · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 04:46 PM

Can't help I'm afraid but PeteS is a New Forest shroomer and has had a fair bit of luck with some edibles.

wildherbalian85 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 04:52 PM

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Can't help I'm afraid but PeteS is a New Forest shroomer and has had a fair bit of luck with some edibles.

Hope i don't miss it this year - year before last i was just outside brockenhurst and the forest floor was littered with Amanita pantherina's and Amanita muscaria's, last year when i went i found 3 Muscarias .... but there was thousands of Semilanceata's - maybe i left it to late for the new forest?>??

I really want to find some panthers to photograph - i already have plenty of muscaria pics.... a few Gemmatas would be nice too

GerryNick2 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 07:11 PM

In the Bramshaw Woods area on Friday, plenty of Russula, Entoloma and Tawny Grisette but no sign of the fly agarics yet. Despite the wet weather some areas very dry resulting in a lot of dwarf specimens.

Gerry

flaxton · #5 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 08:02 PM

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Hi was wondering if anybody has been down to The New Forest recently, and whether the panther caps and fly agarics have started to show themselves???

Not quite the New Forest but up here in York they are popping up everywhere so I would have expected them to be in your neck of the woods soon.

Mal

wildherbalian85 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 08:23 PM

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Not quite the New Forest but up here in York they are popping up everywhere so I would have expected them to be in your neck of the woods soon.

Mal

Maybe.... they don't normaly start popping up till mid september at the earliest.... best time down here is normaly late september early october

FlyAgaric · #7 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 11:15 PM

My local ground is teeming with Fly Agarics, Panther Cap included, just today I was surrounded by hundred of them, never seen so many in one place, I am in Hampshire.

Stewy · #8 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 11:23 PM

Are you sure they are Panthercaps FlyAgaric?

FlyAgaric · #9 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 11:31 PM

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Are you sure they are Panthercaps FlyAgaric?

Not 100% no, but they were like Fly Agaric's but brown. But I know Fly Agaric's can go pail and look brownish when there has been a lot of hard rain or are getting old, which there had been the day before a lot of rain.

wildherbalian85 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-09-2008, 12:08 AM

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Not 100% no, but they were like Fly Agaric's but brown. But I know Fly Agaric's can go pail and look brownish when there has been a lot of hard rain or are getting old, which there had been the day before a lot of rain.

Fly agarics only loose there spots in the rain - they remain red, though rarely fade to yellow - never brown.