ID: why there’s not mushroom for error
February may not be the best time to think about mushrooms because few are around in the depths of winter. But it may be a good time to prepare for the year ahead, perhaps even the years ahead.
As I said in part one (Wild fungi, 8 December 2021), the identification of fungi is a notoriously difficult skill to learn. There are 6,000 or 7,000 species of (non-microscopic) fungi in Britain. No one knows them all and, for the forager, there is no point in even trying.
