Fungi
North Wiltshire: David Shorten, 45 Sevenfields, Highworth, Swindon SN6 7NF. Tel: 01793 764649 email: daveshorten@cotswoldfungusgroup.com
Find out more about the Cotswold Fungus Group by visiting their website.
South Wiltshire: Edward G Gange, Belvedere, Southampton Road, Whaddon, Salisbury SP5 3DZ. Tel: 01722 711759
Fungi Reports
Fungi in North Wiltshire
" As in most years, recording of fungi fruiting is a rather patchy affair, largely dependant on weather patterns where fungi are reliant on moisture availability and temperature availability to fruit. 2009 was not an unusually productive year but with some high points, despite the relatively dry patch from February to June and an unusually dry September."
Recording Fungi (North Wiltshire) 2008
"For fungi in 2008 another patchy year with un-seasonal rainfall patterns and dry weather through the spring months and, again, through late summer into early autumn. This meant that for a large proportion of the early-autumn fruiting fungi such as the Russulas and Amanitas, very few made an appearance. Despite this, fungus foraying and surveying activities continued throughout the two main seasons and contributed almost two thousand fungus finds records for 2008, bringing our total contribution to the WSBRC to something in the region of 35,500 records to date."
Fungi in South Wiltshire 2008
"Details of any species recorded that are new/rare/unusual to Wiltshire. Species recorded in South Wilts for the first time in 2008 are as follows: Evernia prunastri, Exidiopsis effusa, Gloeoporus dichrous, Gymnosporangium sabinae, Hygrocybe conica var. chloroides, Licea deplanata, Melampsora aecidiodes, Microthelia incrustans, Mycena amicta var. iris, Orbilia luteorubella, Parmelia perlata, Perenniporia fraxinea, Physarum leucophaeum, Physarum psittacinum, Ramularia archangeliae, Ramularia geranii, Septoria mougeotii."
Fungi in North Wiltshire 2007
"For fungi in 2007, it was a rather patchy year with a moist spring and extremely dry summer, despite the flooding in adjacent Gloucestershire, leading to a late start for the fruiting of the autumnal species. All told the autumn peak season for the more common larger fungi is almost a fortnight later than it was a couple of decades ago, although some fungi are appearing sporadically earlier in the year and fruiting occasionally through to later in the season than previously."
Click on the links below to download reports before 2007
