Fungi
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Country Diary Wolsingham, Co Durham: Rust fungi turn older leaves a lurid yellow
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With the autumnal weather in recent weeks bringing mushrooms and truffles out in great numbers, we’ve asked you to share photos of the ones you have discovered in your garden and when out walking. Here are some of our favourites
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Country Diary Wenlock Edge: Older than living memory this tree is full of secrets
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Epidemic threatening protected UK native species may have spread from Asia to Europe through the exotic pets trade
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Country Diary: Bergh Apton, Norfolk The collection symbolised all that our own species has pondered, learned and felt about mushrooms for centuries
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Country Diary: Great Stubby Hat, New Forest It is almost impossible to walk in some places without crushing them underfoot
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Gangs commercially picking edible fungi to sell to restaurants and markets are leaving a ‘trail of destruction’ across woodlands, such as Epping and New Forest
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Paul Simons Craze for foraging may endanger our mushrooms
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From the ancient Aztecs to Woodstock hippies, mind-altering plants have been used by various cultures for thousands of years, for everything from religious ceremonies to staying awake. A new exhibition at London’s Kew Gardens looks at some of the most popular
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A fungus discovered on a beetle has helped to solve a long-standing mycological mystery, writes Quentin Wheeler
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 8 July 1914: The common puff-ball, especially when it has exploded and thrown abroad its brown spores, does not look attractive
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Photographer Stephen Axford forages for fungi in the forests of New South Wales in Australia. He doesn't harvest them, he captures their beauty on camera
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ACT Health confirms latest case, unrelated to three reported last week, and urges people not to pick and eat wild fungi
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Though a cold start made it hard for some, the National Trust's annual audit of flora and fauna has found most species did well
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GrrlScientist: The humble mushroom takes centre stage in this delightful video, courtesy of London's Natural History Museum.
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Kate Ravilious reports on recent research that shows the remarkably clever means by which mushrooms ensure wide dispersal of their spores
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Paul Simons looks at the hardy flowers still hanging on as temperatures fall, and admires fungus that thrive in the heavy rain
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 November 1913: Fungus – the word suggests poisonous, morbid growths on the decaying vegetation of summer
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Scientists hopeful of finding other amphibian species presumed to have been wiped out by chytrid fungus infection
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GrrlScientist: This is the story of how our hero, Richard Carter, joined forces with a local botanist to hunt down the elusive, rare and very tiny delicate flapwort!
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Country diary: Ambersham Common, West Sussex: Recent harsh winters, which make it difficult for the birds to find food, have reduced their number on the West Sussex heaths
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge: The ghostly glow of this fungus – bioluminescence – appears in the Old English epic poem
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Country diary: Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield: The whole trunk, from ruptured base to brittle tip, is studded with fungi
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge: The structures that blossom in the air age quickly, decay and collapse, while newer, bigger edifices heave out of the earth to replace them
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As Canberra celebrates its annual truffle festival, Mandy Lamont goes hunting for the much-prized fungi on a truffiere in the region
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A beautiful, newly discovered lichen from Colombia is the result of a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic alga, writes Quentin Wheeler
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A selection of best wildlife and nature photos from this year's competition in Germany
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Brigitte Tee, an authority on edible wild mushrooms, explains the origins and secretive nature of her work
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Producers of 'black diamonds' call in gendarmes to protect harvest over festive period amid soaring demand
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Country diary: Stansted Park, Hampshire: Fly agaric is the quintessential fairytale toadstool, a home for woodland sprites
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 28 October 1912: A perfect ring of dark green grass, six to eight feet across showed plainly on the springy turf of the salt-sprayed cliff
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Paul Simons says the horse chestnut trees are in a sorry state as they are being damaged by a pest
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge: Maybe there is someone waiting in the dark for me to go, not knowing why I came, not knowing I am not Them
GrrlScientist The fungus among us: Kew Gardens' Fungarium