On Monday 4th November Herefordshire Meadows held a waxcap walk at Hererfordshire Wildlife Trust’s Sturts North Nature Reserve, looking for autumnal indicators of good grassland diversity and soil health.The session was led by Jo Weightman and David Williamson from Herefordshire Fungus Group, who helped us to identify the various and sometimes colourful waxcaps on show as well as a variety… Read more →
Join us at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s Sturts North Nature Reserve on Monday 4th November for our annual Autumn waxcap ID walk with fungi recorders, Jo Weightman and David Williamson, and courtesy of Lewis Goldwater, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust From 10.00-12.00. This is a great chance to: Identify some of the more distinctive waxcap fungi (Download the Plantlife Waxcap guide to your… Read more →
Join us for an autumnal ID day at Stockings Meadow Nature Reserve led by Jo Weightman, the Herefordshire Fungus Recorder and courtesy of David Hutton, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust. This is a great chance to: Identify some of the more distinctive waxcap fungi (Download the Plantlife Waxcap guide to your phone or device and bring small UNlidded plastic container(s) with you)… Read more →
CANCELLED DUE TO POOR WEATHER Join us for an autumnal ID day at Stockings Meadow Nature Reserve led by Jo Weightman, the Herefordshire Fungus Recorder and courtesy of David Hutton, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust. This is a great chance to: Identify some of the more distinctive waxcap fungi (Download the Plantlife Waxcap guide to your phone or device and bring small… Read more →
Waxcaps are familiar-shaped fungi that are often brightly-coloured with a waxy or slippery outside. They are found in grasslands that are generally poor in nutrients – such as old pasture, sand dunes, heathland, lawns and cemeteries. Plantlife have brought out a New Waxcap App (WaxcApp), which has been developed to help users identify them. It is important that we discover where they… Read more →
