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Waiting for a reply from the estate... I've not seen it yet, but am heading over today to have a look, so will respond with my guestimate... We would have quite wide ranging access to the estate it seems, which is 3,500 acres, so whilst the plot for setting up may be small, wandering activities...

Hi there all, Hoping for a little advice on rental values. I've been building up the business, and recently won an UnLtd Millenium Award to help set up properly... Myself and a partner are looking at renting some space to run courses, and have found a space with a field, some woodland, a...

Nothing wrong with them I reckon... I've known licensed commercial foragers who, rather than pillaging a patch would pick half of each crop of Cep etc and freeze raw until they had the required amount. I've eaten blewits that were frozen when picked, and it's known that velvet shanks...

Bummer... An excuse for another walk perhaps? It's been gorgeous out there... :) Iona

The same as S. crispa demographic. Yeah, lovely edibles, and they have the benefit of being such a large fungus that one can remove only part of the fruiting body, allowing the rest to sporulate unharmed... It dries well too :) Iona

Just a conversation from where I'm sitting Geoff... :confused: Iona

Yes I know Andreas through WAB, he helped me out on the above mentioned Lepiota cortinarius a while back... Did you show him the pics? I'm still fairly sure it's S. crispa, and to me what Andreas has said there is further reason not to say things like: 'The picture you posted is of Sparassis...

No worries, I completely relate about the coniferous trees, I found a really rare fungus this year, (Lepiota cortinarius) and when asked for the records what tree it was under the answer was, erm... a piney one?! Cue a trip back to identify it as a Blue Atlas Cedar, incidentally the place...

No game, genuine question... :)

Could be (still) Lepista sordida, but the colour and stature suggest nuda...

You were very adamant on this particular one, without the whole thing to look at, and it looks nothing like it to me... just an open S. crispa... and the book I was quoting was much newer and takes into account more recent info. And, looking at the photos I've posted again, and the first photo...

Having tried all of the otions on the thread telling you how to upload photos, until I can get a hand, I'll link to these... http://www.flickr.com/photos/43456575@N03/ Iona

Lepista nuda - wood blewit for me... interesting substrate! If in doubt it should smell perfumed, and have a pale pink spore print. :) Iona

Hi there, demographic, I'd love it if you could post a picture of the full fruiting body of your Sparassis, I think you may have been right the first time... S. crispa is more likely to have the toothed margin, thinner lobes, and I've had it looking very much like yours, illustrated on the...

Hi Toddy! I wasn't suggesting that everyone gets into recording, just that it's a way to gauge the depth of knowledge of an instuctor should you go on a course... You know their identifications are good! And I think it's great to have a thread to look through, I just don't think it can...