A Lesson and a Correction In my 2024 Calendar I cited these as Scutellinia sp. I recently discovered it was something a little different. It's been almost 10 years ago since I spotted these tiny orange discs in the gravel of a long driveway flanked by a neglected olive grove and agave in Sicily. The… Continue reading Melastiza sp., Monte Altore, Sicily
Introducing the Mushroomination Calendar for 2024! The calendar is €12.99 (plus P & P) and printed to order from Lulu.com, the calendar features a different seasonal mushroom for each month. I have spent many years photographing mushrooms and fungi wherever I find them, to identify them, study them and wonder over them. I'm delighted to… Continue reading Mushroomination Calendar 2024
Lepista nuda, 28th December 2015 In 2015, I was living and volunteering in the west of Sicily, for a Maltese environmental NGO whose aims at the time were to build an eco-community/eco-tourist village in the mountains between the beautiful villages of Vizzini and Licodia-Eubea. Villas had been in the area historically for at least a… Continue reading Lepista nuda, Wood Blewit, Sicily
5th September 2020 I love how diverse the forms of fungi can be, and this is (probably - apart from its very similar brother P. hadriani) the rudest looking fungus in the west, sure to illicit scoffs and giggles when seen. This delightfully protruding formation is the common stinkhorn. It first emerges from the ground… Continue reading Phallus impudicus, Common stinkhorn, Co. Wicklow & Catania
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