Elders 5 – Fungi with Neil Mahler – Kinda Elders in the woods

Here’s our mycellium mind:

Fly agaric under a birch – does it particularly like birch (yes, says Neil)
How old does fungi get? How many days does the fruiting body fruit?
Over the bridge at Hevingham Hall are hundreds of puff balls
Chicken in the wood I’d always wanted to find, then a workman came back carrying some from my own land!
In Hungary several people die each ear from eating fungi. They put it in a stew so it is indistinguishable. Good way to control the population. Someone said to me it’s ok to eat it if the gills are white – this is rubbish
In Slovenia Boletus mushrooms in soup is delicious. Walking Aga fen, looking at the ground, in between some sadness and some happiness, it was a good in between.
Two weeks ago a newspaper contacted Neil to ask about death by death cap, trying to get some sensational news from him, but he said, it was just the weather that gave dominance to them.
Caroline worked with Alan Rayner, on mycelia networks. How the diversity of life tell us about ourselves as human beings as natural inclusions. Trees and fungi as flow forms. (Thanks for this Caroline – i’m enjoying this youtube video)

Here’s a great resource: how to make a bandage from a fungi

List of fungi found in Kaliwoods, October 2024

Honey Fungus
Xylaria hypoxylon – Candlesnuff Fungus
Inocybe geophylla – Lilac Fibrecap
Russula emetica – The Sickener
Blushing bracket
Turkey Tail
Birch polypore
Gymnopilus penetrans – Common Rustgill
Crepidotus mollis – Peeling Oysterling
Crepidotus variabilis – Oysterling
Wet rot (like dry rot)
Bjerkandera adusta – Smoky Bracket
Pluteus atromarginatus – Blackedged Shield
Hymenopellis radicata – Rooting Shank
Byssomerulius corium – Netted Crust
Common Bonnet
Tremella mesenterica – Yellow Brain Fungus
Tricholoma
Wet Rot – Coniophora puteana
Jelly Ear

Below an artical about Beatrix Potter and her fabulous drawings of fungi, may be including one like we found, that Niel has taken away to confirm it is not the Candlearbre fungi.