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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Prince" data-source="post: 1992083" data-attributes="member: 52862">Saturday 21st NovemberAfter two weeks in an often sweltering South Africa, stumbling outside of Heathrow at 6 in the morning was predictably unpleasant. After a bit of kicking our heels we were off to collect my car (which threw a bit of a wobbly, possibly as a complaint about the abuse on the way up) then it was a straightforward chug back home, ditch the luggage and out to Abbeyford woods for a fungi foray (this time an official Devon fungi group foray).Most of the usual suspects were present, plus a new guy with an interesting specialisation, he was into beetles on fungi. A pleasant chap who added a new dimension to the foray as he was after big eaten old fungi rather than the small rarities and pristine macros normally sought out by the group. It had obviously rained since we last visited in a torrential downpour, but alas most of the fungi was probably past its best, though there were still some good ones to find, including the aptly named fragrant funnel, my first Trumpet Chantrelle for Devon (we'd found several in Kent, and Savernake previously) another saddle - (Eflin) and Common Rustgill (a common species we had almost certainly seen before but never been entirely happy with).At the end of the foray the beetle interest was displayed with some tiny fungi boring beetles, including the pretty Rhinosimis Ruficollis which had been munching on Ustulina..Sites: Abbeyford WoodSpecies : Rhinosimus Ruficollis (A beetle), Exidia Thuretiana (White Brain), Clitocybe Fragrans (Fragrant Funnel), Gymopilous Penetrans (Common Rustgill), Cantharellus Tubaeformis (Trumpet Chanterelle), Stropharia Aeruginosa (A roundhead), Helvella Lacunosa (Elfin Saddle)Beetles 39; Fungi 231;GT 1633</blockquote>

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