🗁Added 64 photos to album Foraging 2021.
A very successful afternoon of mushroom foraging around Kirkcaldy-adjacent woodlands, and Aberdour. Featuring:
- Many different russulas, nibbled on site to decide whether to keep them.
- A variety of boletes in reasonable condition, mostly yellow/orange cracked, and a few brown birch.
- My first porcini!
- A bolete with a brown cap and a fat red stem. It could have been a lurid or a scarletina, but we left it. We got one mature one that after triple checking is definitely a scarletina.
- A good haul of chanterelles.
- What we thought were puffballs, but turned out to all be earthballs when we got them home. Most common cause of poisonings in the UK, I expect because the rule of thumb is earthballs are dark inside and puffballs are white. But actually some earthballs can be cream and it's easy to think you have a puffball. But the giveaway is the texture - earthballs are much firmer.
- Lots of blushers spotted (poisonous).
- A variety of to-be-identified mushrooms, including some funnel caps and milky caps.
