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sidewalkdoctor Member of the Wild Empire Registered: March 2008 Location: Isle of Wight Posts: 374	Two of a plethora of these fungi deep in shade near Newchurch, IoW.
	· Date: Sun October 4, 2009 · Views: 556 · Filesize: 172.0kb · Dimensions: 800 x 722 ·
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	Keywords: Woods, shady, IoW.
	Camera Information: nikon d40x; 18-20mm zoom
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wildherbalian85

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Registered: April 2008
Location: South Coast
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Sun October 4, 2009 4:51pm

Where the bleedin hell did they get the moisture to grow?? Insane mushrooms - it has hardly rained since end of July here in portsmouth.... no rain for over 3 weeks and you just over the water on the Island have these.... shockingly good find sidewalkdoctor

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sidewalkdoctor

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Location: Isle of Wight
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Sun October 4, 2009 5:07pm

They were in the margins of a very boggy area near Newchurch, just off the old railway/cycletrack to Sandown.

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wildherbalian85

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Registered: April 2008
Location: South Coast
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Sun October 4, 2009 8:24pm

Ahh a boggy area probably explains where they have got their moisture to grow... i know of very few places like that on this side of the water that are unlikely to be bone dry... New Forest or deep woodland with near by streams are about it... that said i was up the new forest just over 2 weeks ago and i can say it was pretty dried up even though significant rain had fallen only days earlier

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