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 carry out.
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.

A Thought for 2005 and onwards:
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!

Also mind where you point your camera in populated ares!

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

   our original site for  Butterfliesi 

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

  and:

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

      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.

Repeater site:       http://website.lineone.net/~fungi.dells

    Main site was organised to provide a non-person-named 
site for council use.

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!

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

       http://morelmushroomhunting.com/photoweek.html

                                                                                                                         SITE REVISIONS.

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

December 2001  convert old site and add ABFG info.

         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.

Over the last few years we have put about 11,000 records into the BMS database.Where we have made frequent site visits,in the season, we select those that have not been recorded recently for submission to the database.

Now you have got this far:  view an interesting  new local site

http://www.minleymushketeers.co.uk

see what you think of the modern approach.

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

sort side index 28.09.2008

10.11.2008       add reminder     (click to expand picture)

22.11.2008  add David E's website