Note: Our temporary logo is from The Wildlife Trusts. We are not officially associated with them.
Our autumn banner is a shot of maple leaves by Hossenfeffer.
I found one of these in Warwickshire, let my mycology society know, they collected a sample and it's now in the fungarium in my local town museum.
Apparently it was the first recorded instance of it in
Warwickshire.
It always makes me smile when I see news articles on it.
That's badass
interesting, pretty sure I can get this to eat at most vegetarian places where I live... 🤔
They are certainly edible and are considered to have a range of health benefits - but the commercially available ones will be farmed or collected elsewhere than in the UK. Even if anyone did feel like foraging for them in the UK - which would be illegal, of course - given how rare they are, there's no way it would be commercially viable.
It's a pretty common ingredient for vegetarian food; I'm just surprised that could be considered "rare and protected" in some other parts of the world.
That thought just never crossed my mind, like if wild chickens were rare and protected, you know😀
Spagetti ass looking mushroom
Doesn’t look very protected to me