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   As always, thanks for the id - makes it far more interesting!
Here is todays beauty from some woodland near Hythe...

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chubsta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Location: Folkestone,Kent Status: Offline Points: 430	Post Options Post Reply Quote chubsta Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Mar 2019 at 3:03pm
	As always, thanks for the id - makes it far more interesting! Here is todays beauty from some woodland near Hythe...

Liz Heard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Location: South West Status: Offline Points: 1429	Post Options Post Reply Quote Liz Heard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:51pm
	Well admittedly it's not a rarity, but i'd still consider your find special. Encountering a species in abundance is usually an impressive spectacle and fungi are so fleeting. These are edible and sometimes cultivated for sale, Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus). You can buy a kit and grow them on an old book - quite good fun though the results were a bit disappointing when i tried it. I don't think it's possible to be 100% sure of species from photos, but your fungi are relatively pale in colour and i suspect if you examined underneath, some of the stems would be fused together at the base. A pretty good match for Branching Oyster Pleurotus cornucopiae. Great find and nice to see!

chubsta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Location: Folkestone,Kent Status: Offline Points: 430	Post Options Post Reply Quote chubsta Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Mar 2019 at 7:36pm
	Nothing special here (I presume) but the size was impressive - the first specimen was just under 2 feet wide! The whole log/stump was erupting, very nice to see...