Our local area now has a small group affiliated to ABFG

julie@jcsfabrics.co.uk

www.geocities.com/hants_shrooms

designer     Mark_J_Cornwell

         The recording of Fungi has been a specialist area for
 some time but with the advent of various identification manuals ,with photographs,it is now easier to take up the hobby.

         The purists are still holding on to their KEYS and MICROSCOPES as the only way to properly identify the 
various species.However a great deal of field research can be 
done by the Amateur and the more awkward species passed 
on to the Specialists.

          It is important,if we are to complete Atlases of Fungi 
that as many people as possible take up recording and pass
 their records on to the County Recorders,Natural History Societies,or the County Wildlife Trusts.

        The Hampshire Fungus Recording Group

was formed to link up some local field recorders into a reporting group.We have a Recorder who compiles the annual sightings
 by date and site and passes the information on to the Central Records of the British Mycological Society. 

Our Group Leader and Recorder was: Graham Mattock,16 Gordon Avenue,Winchester,Hants.SO23 0QQ.--who is Now! on e-mail.   graham.mattock@talk21.com

Graham has retired!   Passing the leadership to:

Tel 01794 522192 email: HFRG@hampshirefungi.org.uk

Group Website:

www.hampshirefungi.org.uk

         LINK WITH NORTH AMERICA.

We are now linked with The Kaw Valley Mycological Society,based just west of Kansas City,Missouri.

Their website can be found at__
        http://www.sunflower.com/~pilott29

We hope to develop some common links on field surveying with our new friends.Also an exchange of information and pictures.

           There is a debate as to whether or not species should be picked Complete with Base for positive identification at
Home,after the Foray.If you are looking at Fly Agaric(Amanita muscaria)the answer is most probably NO.

          There is also a current debate on the commercial picking
 of Mushrooms by the Catering Trade from our Countryside,in
 the Autumn,the debate being whether or not the Underground Plants will be destroyed and the species either much reduced 
or lost from the site.The British Mycological Society has been looking at this problem and has more research to do.The Swiss have found that heavy picking over a number of years has 
reduced their visible quantity of the edible species.

           Sites open to the Public may now carry notices 
prohibiting collection of Fungi in the autumn,and various Landowners are now looking at the possible problem.

            Rare or difficult to identify Fungi need specimens for positive identification,but we have found recently that the whole group of rare fungi have been taken leaving none for other observors and in one case they were taken before they matured
 thus leaving their proper identification forever in doubt.We have found that Rares seldom repeat the following year on the same site,though they may appear up to 200 metres away,as in 
the case of Amanita virosa.

A Thought for 2005:

With current legislation it might be worth considering the size of any knife

you carry in the field ,or keep in the boot of the car!

What has been normal for many years could now be described as a "weapon"

with the onus of disproving the case resting upon you!

            Our e-mail address:  

    davidandjean.dell@btinternet.com  

     We also have some other sites which may be of interest:

   our original site for Fungi!
           http://website.lineone.net/~fungi.dells

   other groups:

        http://website.lineone.net/~dragonflies.dells      

     We run a personal site for Old Askeans,former pupils of Haberdashers Askes Hatcham Boys School at:

http://website.lineone.net/~david.dell/index.html
  for the ladies:
http://uk.geocities.com/askesgirls

     We have constructed a Picture Gallery on a Site with 

more than 100 mbs of space.The address for this one is:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.dell/index.html

       This gives us an opportunity to show our Flowers,Places 

we have visited and the Red Arrows etc.

      We also have a new site for WILD ORCHIDS and Other Flowers which is at:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jean.dell/index.html

We hope you will also enjoy that one.

The full listing of our sites may be found at:-

http://www.dragonflies.supanet.com

Links:     

  Other sites which may be of interest are:

The Association of British Fungus Groups
 
E-mail:  inquiries@abfg-adsl.demon.co.uk

Web-site:   http://www.abfg.org

Despite actual change of location!

Northern Ireland Fungus Group   Updated Links

       Web-site:   http://www.nifg.org.uk

e-mail:   david_mitchel@nifg.org.uk

    North West Fungus Group:   Updated Links

http://fungus.org.uk/nwfg.htm

http://fungus.org.uk/nwfg/jack.htm

http://fungus.org.uk/nwfg/nicholls.htm

   e-mail   paul@fungus.org.uk

Purbeck Fungus Group:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lewisw/fungus.htm

Mycology at Kew: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/mycology/index.html

B.M.S. Database:
       http://194.131.255.3/bmspages/BMSFRO/bmsfrd.htm

To which we subscribe with regular lists of what we find on our 
wanderings in the local area!

Now  6307  direct  plus 300 for 2005 not yet loaded

and some 3000 entries via HFRG.

Serg Gallery:   http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/serg/Fungus.html

                     http://www.oliver.nxs.net/fungiold.htm

                  http://helsinki.filkmus/botcryp.html
                  http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~fvl/mushimage/imageframe.htm

                      http://www.chilton.unet.com/fungi.htm

  Tom Volk      http://www.wisc.edu/botany/fungi/gopher.html

  Nathan's       http://www.cinenet.net/users/velosa/photoalbum.htm

An American site which may be of interest.
       http://morelmushroomhunting.com

       http://morelmushroomhunting.com/photoweek.html

Search Engines:

Yahoo

www.google.com                  www.alltheweb.com

                                                                                                                         SITE REVISIONS.

Revised List of other sites  5th August 1998 and 21st November 1998

December 2001  convert old site and add ABFG info.

 Set of data has been added,for some 6 selected sites.
This may be helpful to those who Foray in Southern England.
A second set of Sites has been compiled,and is shown under Sites of Interest as Five Sites.
   Under Sites of Interest you will find a series of Tables giving the 1998 dates of viewing ,of various species ,by Six selected sites.We hope these will be useful.  Some day we will update them,but our current records for the centre are in a different format!
  

Counter got to 1,915 before being re-set!

Then it got to 3,505 before we changed to frames.

Total so far =  5,420 visits

Test Tiscali link 7th January 2002

No counters are available(from Tiscali) so we cannot see how many now visit.

Small revision 30th July  2003.

amend ABFG mail address 05.01.2006

Amend HFRG data  11th March 2006