Wednesday 19 November 2014

More Dawson Heights, masks and exciting fungi..

I went on a nice long walk and fungi hunt today, round the Horniman Gardens, through the museum and back through Sydenham Hill Woods, I did a long drawing in Horniman gardens of Dawson Heights on a misty day and drew some very interesting masks in the museum, some huge fungi fairy rings were in the woods and a big Hen-of-the-woods, full of insects:
"Grifola frondosa is a polypore mushroom that grows in clusters at the base of trees, particularly oaks. The mushroom is commonly known among English speakers as hen-of-the-woods, ram's head and sheep's head. "

The partial fairy ring of HUGE white fungi are, I think, Citopilus prunnulus, The Miller, 

also called the Sweet-bread mushroom.
But I wouldn't be confident enough to eat them...
See below these drawings:



















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