A quick visit yesterday to Aberdare park to look at some fungus my daughter had found and was amazed to find 24 Broad Leaved Hellebrine growing in the flower beds at the top of the park and shows a lot more common in the valley than first thought. My Daughter's fungus turned out to be Russula and not ly Agaric which she thought it was and most had been damaged or flatted.
It is probably quite widespread, but is easily overlooked. I found some growing in the shrub border of one of my clients. I also found some in the truck tipping area of the phurnacite.
ReplyDeleteMark nice to see your photo on the South Wales Birding Site
ReplyDeleteWhat photo is that, Phil?
ReplyDeleteAh, I see what you mean. That was the calm before the storm. Half an hour later, Jake, Mike and I were feverishly lugging mothing equipment through the northern dunes to get our part of the Glamorgan Moth Recording Group's sand dunes night up and running. The following day, my buttocks felt like I'd paid a visit to Madam Whiplash on a 50% extra, offer night!
ReplyDeleteMark, I put that photo on the SWB because Maurice was a regular there, no other reason. A full obit will appear in the 2014 EGBR.
ReplyDeleteThat's OK, Jake. I was momentarily confused, wondering if one of my photos had got onto the site and which one it might have been. It may sound strange, my having to ask this, but I've been meaning to ask, who the Maurice in question was?
ReplyDeleteMaurice Chown
ReplyDeleteI don't think I ever met him. A very familiar surname from hours spent in the records office, searching for the Cornish side of my family. Looking for the name Chlew, I must have come across hundreds of Chowns.
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