Fungi season over?

[goosey]

The last couple of trips around my regular haunts, looking for fungi have proved very disappointing . I have seen loads of candlesnuff, brackets and various things on dead wood but there were hardly any cap types to be found. Is anyone else experiencing this?
To be honest I thought that most fungi was to be found October-November, but my best months have been September and October.

[paul m]

Originally Posted by goosey

The last couple of trips around my regular haunts, looking for fungi have proved very disappointing . I have seen loads of candlesnuff, brackets and various things on dead wood but there were hardly any cap types to be found. Is anyone else experiencing this?
To be honest I thought that most fungi was to be found October-November, but my best months have been September and October.

Yesterday I saw someone carrying what looked like a very large (at least 200mms wide) field mushroom (not a bracket) - is this what I remember as a 'horse mushroom' from my childhood?

[Cybershot]

It seems to have been a quite disappointing season all round. Since the flush of fruitings in August/September the promise of a bumper haul of autumn records in my neck of the woods has yet to be fulfilled.

David

Wot no Fungi ?

[goosey]

I haven't been out for almost a fortnight now, mainly due to weather which is so frustrating. I hope to get out tomorrow but don't hold out much hope for finding anything special.
August was also a good month for me and I wasn't intentionally looking for fungi then, I was after moths and dragonflies but kept tripping over fungi so to speak!

When should I start looking out for Morchella Sp? I found my first and only one in April, but others seemed to be posting images for ages before I was lucky.

[goosey]

I was more fortunate in my findings than I expected, with some Brick Tuft (Hypholoma lateritium), Velvet Shank's (Flammulina velutips ), sulphur tuft, (Hypholoma fasciculare) and lots of huge Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nularis) and a few others I am yet to ID. There are still lots of puffballs about which I have been finding since August. Don't forget the dicovery of my famous leaf fossil fungi (well I was chuffed anyway!)!
I checked on a Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postia caesia) I first found 5 weeks ago and it had only grown 1cm and was still soft. I had been keeping an eye for months on a fallen branch with Dead mans fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) which was also growing very slowly but the whole branch had gone .
Brackets and lots of slime moulds seemed to be in abudance, not really my thing but beggers can't be chosers All in all a very happy outing!

[Cybershot]

Originally Posted by goosey

I was more fortunate in my findings than I expected, with some Brick Tuft (Hypholoma lateritium), Velvet Shank's (Flammulina velutips ), sulphur tuft, (Hypholoma fasciculare) and lots of huge Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nularis) and a few others I am yet to ID. There are still lots of puffballs about which I have been finding since August. Don't forget the dicovery of my famous leaf fossil fungi (well I was chuffed anyway!)!
I checked on a Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postia caesia) I first found 5 weeks ago and it had only grown 1cm and was still soft. I had been keeping an eye for months on a fallen branch with Dead mans fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) which was also growing very slowly but the whole branch had gone .
Brackets and lots of slime moulds seemed to be in abudance, not really my thing but beggers can't be chosers All in all a very happy outing!

I joined friends in Hampshire UK for forays on Wednesday and Saturday and although recording about 30 species on each occasion we had to search very hard and nothing appeared in any quantity. Bearing in mind that its the end of November and things should be slowing down with the exception of the winter species, I still maintain, along with Shirley, that there was a distinct shift this year, bringing whatever flush there was forward a month or two, and that the expected abundances of the autumn fruiting season were unfulfilled.

David