Exceptional year for Craterellus species in SE England

[GeoffDann]

Is it like this elsewhere in the country?

I am finding enormous quantities of Craterellus cornucopioides, Pseudocraterellus sinuosus (which should be a Craterellus, surely) fruiting abundantly in all sorts of new (to me) places, C. tubaeformis fruiting early, and now these...

[Roy Betts]

Hi Geoff,
Rarely see these things in this part of the world: eg: have only ever seen C. tubaefomis in the New Forest and in Northumberland!
Actually, it's gone very quiet around here these last few weeks despite the frequent showers.

[GeoffDann]

[Mal Greaves]

I spend a lot of time in the woods of North Yorkshire but other than a few Cibarius I have never seen any of the others species in the group.
Mal

[GeoffDann]

[Mal Greaves]

Hi Geoff
A good number are mixed deciduous with beech often a majority.
Mal

[Roy Miller]

Well, I can't say I have found many Craterellus species this year, though I am not looking in my frequent patches where I know they exist. Though lots of Chanterelle finds, and nice size ones at that. What I have found in a new location is plenty of both the Wood and Terracotta Hedgehog fungi (particularly the latter one).

I don't usually take too much attention to the edibles, but when they are so frequent you cannot help but see them.

Roy M