Photographing Mushrooms In The New Forest - Mike Browne 

Right with you there 🍄🍄🍄

Why thank you 🙏

Good on you Ash. Using a longer lens - and / or getting the scooter in close and shooting from directly overhead might help... MB 👍

Not your favourite dish I take it?!

@@MikeBrowne I don't think you can eat them. They are red with white dots. 🍄

Thanks Jacques 🙏😊

Go on... treat yourself!

Thank you David 🍄

Yes, definitely has plus points

Typical!! 🍄🍄🍄

Thanks Joe 🍄🍄🍄

ooh dear... hope so 😣

Thanks Dr Nimish 🍄🍄🍄

Oh dear - I guess in the balance of nature it's probably a good thing...

@@MikeBrowne I can tell you that forrest owners dread them!

The mushrooms above ground are just fruit bodies. The fungus consists of a web of fine threads that grows underground all the time. Some mushrooms just live on dead plant material, and some even form a kind of symbiosis with trees. For instance the Death-cap and the Destroying Angel which will kill you if you eat them, are good for the trees. But some fungi are parasites. The Honey Fungus can live on dead plant material, but it tends to spread wildly and send treads up under the bark of living trees and slowly kill them. A Honey Fungus can sometimes spread over many square miles and thus become one of the largest living organisms in existence. The fruit bodies are edible if well cooked and not bad eating. In my family we used to eat a lot of them until we got fed up with them. However, you shouldn't eat them unless you're an expert, because there are very poisonous species that look a lot like them.