How long does the fungi season last

[6F2]

given they are just everywhere at the moment when do things start to tail off??

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by 6F2

given they are just everywhere at the moment when do things start to tail off??

Hi 6F2 and welcome to WAB

Fungi can be found throughout the year but the main season is between the months of August and December. Very much depends on the level of moisture present. Whilst some species are seasonal some will only return after a period of years. For instance, the Hen of the Woods or Grifola frondosa may remain dormant for 5 years after fruiting.

Some fungi are only present at certain times of the year. Here are a couple of examples.

St George's Mushroom or Calocybe gambosa around the 23 rd April until early June.

Morels such as Morchella esculenta between March and May

John

[Ditiola]

How long is a piece of string?


Fungi grow best in warm moist conditions, and grow very little if it is too cold or too dry. Many but not all of the soft fleshy fungi do not recover from being frozen. So it all depends on Whether or not we get the right Weather.


Peter

[cybershot]

Welcome to WAB, you couldn't have picked a better spot for extending your fascination and interest in the natural world and photography. Here north east Hampshire (not a million miles from you) we have fungus groups who foray with variable but always (except perhaps for mid-summer) interesting results 12 months of the year. At last this year it seems to be peaking now in this neck of the woods.

David
(lapsed rugby player with two grandchildren and a rhodesian ridgeback)

[6F2]

OK that makes sense of course and given the damp balmy weather then no surprise that our flowerbed and the local forest is covered at the moment.

I feel a bit guilty asking lots of new boy questions and not really contributing yet but thank you for your quick response!

Now I'm going to go and get the photos off the memory card of the hundreds of little brown fellas that have popped up in my woodchip for an ID.

EDIT Cyber, I would love to go out with some people who know there stuff and try and learn more, is that a possibility? Whilst I enjoy the stares of people as I lie down solo in the leaf mulch on an early weekend morning it would be great to go out with others and learn what is what in the field

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by 6F2

OK that makes sense of course and given the damp balmy weather then no surprise that our flowerbed and the local forest is covered at the moment.

I feel a bit guilty asking lots of new boy questions and not really contributing yet but thank you for your quick response!

Now I'm going to go and get the photos off the memory card of the hundreds of little brown fellas that have popped up in my woodchip for an ID.

We have a special file for LBJ's, LBM's or LBF's; however described

[Chris Yeates]

hi

at the risk of playing the role of Sybil Fawlty - Specialist Subject: The Bleeding Obvious let us just remember we are talking about larger fungi here

the fungus season is 365 days a year if one doesn't ignore almost 80% of the fungal biota of these islands . . . I appreciate that most people are only interested in the larger fungi and a sizeable proportion of those people are only interested in ones they can eat, but that then does limit things for them (and, accordingly, their "fungus season") - it also conveniently gives them nine months of non-mycology: plenty of time to forget the stuff they learned the previous year!

numerically speaking, the situation of the latter group of folks is a bit like being a birdwatcher who is only interested in gulls and ignores everything else

OK - gripe over!

I'll get mi coat . . .

Chris

[cybershot]

Originally Posted by 6F2

OK that makes sense of course and given the damp balmy weather then no surprise that our flowerbed and the local forest is covered at the moment.

I feel a bit guilty asking lots of new boy questions and not really contributing yet but thank you for your quick response!

Now I'm going to go and get the photos off the memory card of the hundreds of little brown fellas that have popped up in my woodchip for an ID.

EDIT Cyber, I would love to go out with some people who know there stuff and try and learn more, is that a possibility? Whilst I enjoy the stares of people as I lie down solo in the leaf mulch on an early weekend morning it would be great to go out with others and learn what is what in the field

Close by you have a choice of both BMS and ABFG Fungus Groups for which you should now have some information. Give me a shout or contact either organization for further details. I sometimes venture towards places like Swinley Forest and The Lookout environment.

David

[solus]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

the fungus season is 365 days a year if one doesn't ignore almost 80% of the fungal biota of these islands . . . Chris

Poor Chris - does that mean you only get a day off once every 4 years on February 29th.....?

Er... wait for me - I'm fetching my coat too!

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by solus

Poor Chris - does that mean you only get a day off once every 4 years on February 29th.....?

I do get days off for good behaviour

hang on! - why don't I ever get any days off then?

C