 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 31 Aug: Bernwood (Forest Enterprise).The complex
of Oakley, Shabbington and other woods is the largest remaining
woodland relic of the ancient Royal Forest of Bernwood. It is an
extensive, established woodland site that often produces good
collections of the larger gilled fungi and boletes earlier in
the season, including the recently named Xerocomus chrysonemus.
- Sun 21 Sep: Penny and Derek will try to make time
available to look at any fungi you have collected. Contact as
per email.
- Sun 28 Sep: Burnham Beeches – “Talk and Walk” all day
meeting. (Corporation of London). Derek Schafer and Penny
Cullington will give a brief illustrated introduction to finding
and identifying fungi followed by an outdoor foray through the
Beeches and back for a display of finds and a few examples of
using guide books to identify fungi and of how the microscope
can be used to distinguish some of the more difficult examples.
Places are limited, so please contact Derek Schafer to book.
Bring a packed lunch.
- Sat 4 Oct: County Museum Church Street, Aylesbury.
Mushroom Magic Part of the Family Wildlife Event at the
Aylesbury County Museum. The Group will provide a display of
freshly collected fungi, with photographs and books. The display
opens to the public at 11.00 am and runs until around 4.00pm.
- Sun 5 Oct: Rushbeds Wood (BBOWT/SSSI). BFG's 10th
Anniversary Foray. Rushbeds is an ancient broadleaved
woodland (appearing on a map of 1590) on heavy clay soils,
bordered by unimproved meadows and old hedgerows. The wood 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. It has produced
many unusual fungi over the last 10 years. Non-members who want
to come on the foray will be able to book at the Museum Event on
4 Oct.
- Sun 12 Oct: Mousells Wood and Moorend Common. Joint
meeting with the Frieth Natural History Society. Mousells Wood
is a privately-owned semi-ancient woodland rich in fungi.
Moorend Common is one of the few areas of acid grassland in the
County and a project is in hand to restore it to its natural
state. Bring a packed lunch if coming to both sessions.
- Sun 19 Oct: Langley Park (BucksCC). A walk-around
introduction to the Park and its fungi, tutored by Martyn
Ainsworth. All day meeting, so bring a packed lunch. Booking
essential (there will be a small charge for non-members, payable
in cash on the day). Martyn has studied the special habitats
provided by the Park and has found many rare and unusual
species, including Piptoporus quercinus (a conservation species
associated with veteran oak trees and protected under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act) and the rare and beautiful
Ramariopsis pulchella.
- Sun 26 Oct: Wotton House. Extensive wooded grounds,
with a lake and some veteran oaks; the adjacent nature reserve
at Rushbeds once formed part of the grounds.
- Sat 1 Nov: Cliveden (NT) The grounds of this
magnificent mansion house (now a luxury hotel) are rich in
fungi, including waxcaps at this time of year.
- Sun 2 Nov: Margaret Holden Memorial Fungus Foray Ashridge
This is a joint foray with the Herts. Fungi Group, the Herts
Natural History Society, and the National Trust. Meet at 10.00
am or at 1.30 pm (or stay all day!). A classic SSSI site managed
by the National Trust, and well studied over many years,
comprising ancient semi-natural woodland with areas dominated by
oak, beech and birch, ponds and areas of grassland. Leader Alan
Outen.
- Thur 6 Nov: Penn Waxcap Foray This will focus on the
areas, around the Church and Village Green at Penn Street, which
are excellent sites for waxcap fungi. Finishes in the Squirrel
Pub opposite the Cricket Pitch.
- Sun 21 Dec: Finemere Wood (BBOWT/SSSI). A small
ancient woodland, originally part of the Forest of Bernwood. The
wildlife trust has recently extended the reserve by acquiring
several adjacent meadows. Attendees are welcome to join us after
the foray for a bowl of soup at Duck End House
- Sun 4 Jan: 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.
Other events
British Mycological
Society
contact Stuart Skeates,
stuart@skeates.me.uk
- Overseas Foray, Czech Republic, 5-12 Oct 2008
- Autumn Foray, Dorset, 18-24 Oct 2008
- Workshop Workshop on Lactarius (currently fully booked)
Dorset 24-26 Oct 2008
- Autumn Conservation and Taxonomy Meeting "Rare and
endangered fungi: their ecology and conservation" at the Jodrell
lecture theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Sat 22 Nov, 10.00 am
to 4.30 pm
Herts. Fungi Group
contact Alan Outen 01462 811374
- Gobions Wood, Herts 7 Sep
- Whippendell Wood, Watford 13 Sep
- Sherrards Park Woods, Herts 21 Sep
- Flitwick Moor, Beds 28 Sep
- Kings Wood, Heath & Reach, Beds 5 Oct
- Colworth house, Beds 12 Oct
- Cambridge Botanic Garden 13 Oct
- Northaw Great Wood, Herts 19 Oct
- Nickey Line and Knott Wood, Harpenden 22 Oct
- Mardley Heath, Herts 26 Oct
- Harpenden Common Herts 5 Nov
- RSPB Sandy Beds 9 Nov
- Chipperfield Common, Herts 16 Nov
- Astonbury Wood, Herts 7 Dec
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