In spite of the wild and windy weather brought over by Storm Ashley, fungi experts from Kent Field Club managed to find a great diversity of species on their field visit to the acid grassland and woodland on Old Park on 20 October. These included such wonderfully named fungi as the hare’s ear, the parrot wax cap, the wood woolly-foot, the jewelled amanita, the stinking dapperling, the ugly milkcap, the oysterling, and plums and custard. Not to mention curious slime moulds with such graphic names as ‘dog’s vomit’!
