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Hopefully the E.F.C. will still be alive and well in 2071
and keen enough to make the comparison once more.
Ken Adams.
FUNGUS FORAY
About 25 of us assembled at Eve's Corner, Danbury, on Sunday
13th September 1981.
We split into 2 groups. One group went to Twitty Fee on the
borders of Danbury, Little Baddow and Woodham Walter. They
searched for fungi between the Lane and Poor's Piece. The
other group parked at Pheasant House Farm, Little Baddow,
and searched for fungi in the north half of Woodham Walter
Common; returning to the farm to have our lunch sitting on
the grass in an adjacent meadow, watching the free range
chickens.
After a short search for fungi in the afternoon we all
assembled at St. Andrew's, a church hall and chapel, which
was formally the village school. We then laid out the
fungi that we had collected, identified them and had a
cup of tea.
The ones we wanted confirmed or could not identify were sent
to Kew Gardens.
The following were found in the North half of Woodham Walter
Common:
Phallus impudicus
Paxillus involutus
Piptoporus betulinus
Fistulina hepatica
Amanita rubescens
Scleroderma citrina
Daedaleopsis confragosa
Collybia fusipes
Amanita fulva
Laccaria laccata
Collybia maculata
Daldinia concentrica **
The following were found at Twitty Fee, between the Lane
and Poor's Piece: