Woodchip Fungi

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Just to let those fungi enthusiasts who don't subscribe (or otherwise see) British Wildlife magazine that in current Dec issue there's a fascinating article by Peter Marren on the fungi that have exploited the recent craze for woodchip mulch. Many of the species were previously considered great rarities, even unrecorded here + a couple new to science!

Some of these increasingly encountered species are not shown in the field guides such as Phillips, so will cause some head scratching. Some good photos are included in the article. I've seen large troops of Stropharia aurantiaca at Kew on the mulch.