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18-08-2010, 10:13 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Milton Keynes - not too far away from the woods...
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| | | Les Champignons
OK - evidently not British, but I thought I would share this with you like-minded folk... 
I ended up 5 Euros lighter - a bag full of Champignons de Paris, and 100g of Trompettes de Mort - which actually contributed to a quite gritty risotto  .
C'est la vie...
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18-08-2010, 10:23 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Red Rose County
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| | | Re: Les Champignons
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Originally Posted by FungiJus  ....and 100g of Trompettes de Mort.... | I'd like to see just one of those - in situ.
Supposedly reasonably common in Beech woodland. 
But they are definitely something of a rarity hereabouts. No one I've yet asked has seen any in Lancashire.
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18-08-2010, 10:31 PM
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No Mike - Iv'e never seen a live one either - part of the reason I bought a load really.
We have some good beech woods here, and some areas where they supposedly occur, but I haven't had any joy yet...
J.
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18-08-2010, 10:35 PM
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| | | Re: Les Champignons
come on gents you will want truffles next. bon apetit
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18-08-2010, 11:10 PM
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I've never seen one this side of the Pennines either. 
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18-08-2010, 11:56 PM
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| | | Re: Les Champignons
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Originally Posted by flaxton I've never seen one this side of the Pennines either.
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19-08-2010, 09:03 AM
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| | | Re: Les Champignons
Get them quite often in the New Forest but I would not say they were common. These are from a couple of years ago: 
They do like it wet. And if they start to come up, and you get anymore than a week without rain, they are gone. Once that happenes they never come up again within the same season. In some years they never show at all. I have also noticed a possible two year cycle too:
2004 - good
2005 - bad
2006 - good
2007 - bad
2008 - good
2009 - bad
2010 - ???
One other thing - even though they can fruit in large numbers, often 100+ in one place, they can be hard to spot. The first time I found them I was actually stepping on the things. |
19-08-2010, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates | I do have two beech trees right outside my door, on my land too. Better go look-see ....
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19-08-2010, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad No one I've yet asked has seen any in Lancashire.
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