Unseasonally warm weather and fungi

[SheffieldLass]

I'm wondering what this spell of very warm weather will do for the fungi. Well, apart from stopping them in their tracks if it gets too dry. Will we see the summer warmer weather fungi popping up again, so another good flush of boletes and amanitas? And the colder weather ones that had just started to pop their heads up, decide to duck down again?

I tend to find that waxcaps appear after a night or two where the temperature has dropped close to a frost, and they did so again this year, and had got off to a good start. I found 10 different species of waxcap on a local site a week ago, so though not quite up to peak numbers, had a good show. I suspect they might have gone quiet again. Certainly the H psittacina in my garden last week which had already produced a much bigger number of fruit bodies than last year's crop have stopped throwing up any new ones.

I'll be watching with interest.

It is glorious weather though ... I went for a swim in the sea today at Scarborough in just a swimming cossie , not one of those wet suits for wimps. Decided the water would probably be at its warmest for this year, and it was very pleasant, quite bearable, I only got a few goose pimples . Not bad at all for the North Sea. Though being a bit nesh I did choose to go in between low and high tide, in the afternoon, so the water was coming back in over warm sand ... In fact it was so nice I think I'll go in again tomorrow, but I might be fighting for towel space on the beach as there were long lines of caravans and motor homes piling into Scarborough this evening.

Melanie

[jonbem]

Mel
as an original "Brid Kid"! I was told that if you learned to swim in the sea off the East Coast then you will be able to swim anywhere except the arctic regions!!
As for the effect on the fungi? Well Hmm. We'll see. Will it retard the Lepistas, which I was looking forward to, or as you inferrred will it bring another flush of choice boletes? Or just dry up again. And on that, my local shaggy parasols and shaggy ink caps are a bit poor at the mo!
regards
Jon

[JAJ]

Fingers crossed following a period of rainfall the bolete will find their feet yet this season

[SheffieldLass]

Well, now that 2 months have passed since this thread was started and we've continued to have warm weather, has anyone seen a difference in the seasonality of the fungi this year compared with preceding years?

Here in North Yorkshire this autumn has been very different to the last two:

The waxcaps were cut off in their prime this year with that hot spell at the end of September. They did a partial recovery a couple of weeks ago. But the best time for them was mid-late September, with October and early November being very poor.

It went rather quiet with the larger fungi too. However about a month ago there seemed to be a lot of very small fungi in leaf litter.

About a fortnight ago the bigger fungi got another flush. A combination of warm weather/early autumn ones and some of the ones you would expect about now. Ceps were back, as were Fly Agaric, also a big crop of Dog Stinkhorn, Common and Shaggy Inkcaps, but no Amanita rubescens. However two days ago I noticed a flush of Amanita rubescens and also Helvella lacunosa, both of which were abundant at the beginning of September. And Rhodocollybia butyracea were everywhere, huge numbers.

Also a nice flush of mxyomycetes at the same time.

cheers
Melanie

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Well, now that 2 months have passed since this thread was started and we've continued to have warm weather, has anyone seen a difference in the seasonality of the fungi this year compared with preceding years?

Here in North Yorkshire this autumn has been very different to the last two:

The waxcaps were cut off in their prime this year with that hot spell at the end of September. They did a partial recovery a couple of weeks ago. But the best time for them was mid-late September, with October and early November being very poor.

It went rather quiet with the larger fungi too. However about a month ago there seemed to be a lot of very small fungi in leaf litter.

About a fortnight ago the bigger fungi got another flush. A combination of warm weather/early autumn ones and some of the ones you would expect about now. Ceps were back, as were Fly Agaric, also a big crop of Dog Stinkhorn, Common and Shaggy Inkcaps, but no Amanita rubescens. However two days ago I noticed a flush of Amanita rubescens and also Helvella lacunosa, both of which were abundant at the beginning of September. And Rhodocollybia butyracea were everywhere, huge numbers.

Also a nice flush of mxyomycetes at the same time.

cheers
Melanie

Apart from the stinkorn(s) a very similar story here in SE Yorkshire / N Notts

John