| Gobions Wood is one of the best sites in Hertfordshire for fungi, but because some fungi are poisonous for humans to eat and perhaps also because they seem to appear overnight, they receive a bad press, as do nocturnal animals like bats and badgers. Many fungi thrive on dead wood and, perhaps for this reason, when they appear on living trees it is assumed that they are harmful to the tree, when they are in fact just ‘doing their own thing’ and playing a vital role in the ecosystem. Here is a collection of illustrations of fungi seen in Gobions taken from THE OBSERVER BOOK OF COMMON FUNGI by E M Wakefield
Copyright (c) Frederick Warne Co., 1954 Reproduced by kind permission of Frederick Warne & Co |
Amanita muscaria 150x153 am.jpg Buy Print |
Armillaria mellea 150x166 ame.jpg Buy Print |
Amanita rubescens 150x156 ar.jpg Buy Print |
Agaricus xanthoderma 150x153 ax.jpg Buy Print |
Bolbitius vitellinus 150x165 bv.jpg Buy Print |
Clavaria cinerea 150x151 cc.jpg Buy Print |
Cortinarius elatior 150x161 ce.jpg Buy Print |
Clitocybe flaccida 150x153 cf.jpg Buy Print |
Collybia fusipes 150x142 cfu.jpg Buy Print |
Clitocybe nebularis 150x155 cn.jpg Buy Print |
Clitopilus prunulus 150x138 cp.jpg Buy Print |
Concybe tenera 150x163 ct.jpg Buy Print |
