 Buckinghamshire
Fungus Group
The Buckinghamshire Fungus Group encourages the study and
recording of fungi in the county. It organises a range of field
meetings and indoor events, and welcomes anyone with an interest
in fungi.
For further details and to join the group please contact:
Derek Schafer, email: fungi@bucksfungusgroup.org.uk,
or
Penny Cullington, email: p.cullington@ntlworld.com
Meetings programme for 2008
For all meetings please contact Derek Schafer (fungi@bucksfungusgroup.org.uk)
in advance for details of meeting points and to check for any
changes to the programme.
Unless indicated otherwise, forays are led by Derek Schafer,
start at 10am and finish around 1pm.
- Sun 3 Feb Carpenters Wood (Joint meeting with the
Hertfordshire Fungi Group). The wood has a rich higher plant
flora and a wide diversity of tree species including fine mature
beeches.. Leader Penny Cullington.
- Sun 17 Feb Rushbeds Wood (BBOWT/SSSI). Rushbeds
is an ancient broadleaved woodland (appearing on a map of 1590)
on heavy clay soils, bordered by unimproved meadows and old
hedgerows. Most of the trees were felled in the late 1940s, a
handful of mature oaks remaining. The wood is recovering and has
a diversity of trees with a resemblance and possible continuity
back to the ancient wildwood, including ash, field maple, aspen,
hazel, oak, blackthorn, hawthorn and spindle. The undercover of
sedges, grasses and rushes is equally diverse and unusual fungi
are often found here.
- Sun 16 Mar Hodgemoor Woods (Forest Enterprise).
One of the larger remaining areas of broadleaved Chiltern
woodland, with ancient oak, beech and hornbeam coppice, a
diverse mix of other trees and some conifer plantation. A very
rich site for fungi in the autumn with an extensive list of
species. It might well produce some unusual spring fungi. Leader
Penny Cullington.
- Sun 20 Apr Coombe Hill (NT) Coombe Hill provides a mix
of chalk grassland and woodland at the highest point in the
Chilterns, with spectacular views over three counties. We will
be looking for typical spring species such as Verpa conica and
other Ascomycetes as well as St. Georges Mushroom (Calocybe
gambosa).
- Sun 25 May AGM 2.30 pm. Meet at Duck End House, Hawleys
Lane, Whitchurch
Other events
- Coprinus Week, Forest of Dean, 12-16th May 2008
Contact Derek Schafer for details
British Mycological Society
Contact Stuart Skeates: stuart.bms@skeates.me.uk
or Steve Kelly: stephen.kelly@talktalk.net
or the Society's web site: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk
- 17-23 May BMS Spring Foray Arran, Scotland
Herts. Fungi Group
contact Alan Outen 01462 811374
- Astonbury Wood, near Stevenage, Herts, 2 Mar
- Ashridge, Herts/Bucks, 6 April
- Gobions Wood, near Brookman's Park, Herts, 4 May
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