This is a great time of year to go fungi spotting in the New Forest. These are a couple of parasol mushrooms I spotted growing on the Bartley cricket pitch.

I am great advocate of leaving fungi where it is for others to enjoy spotting it. You have to be very sure about your identification skills if you want to risk eating anything.

I cannot recall who first said it, possibly the late Douglas Adams or maybe the late Terry Pritchard but the quote is “You can eat all fungus but for many types it will be just the once”.