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Leanne Townsend
@wildfoodstory

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I took an impromptu “mental health” day last week and headed to a couple of my favourite spots for an unrushed forage. Just what the doctor ordered. Finds of the day had to be those beautiful cauliflower fungus - one of them was so dayglo yellow at golden hour that I almost doubted that’s what I was walking towards but sure enough a cauliflower twice the size of my head. Also chanterelles (didn’t take many as there are so many much closer to home), winter chanterelles, hedgehogs, a scaly hedgehog, scarletinas, orange and brown birch boletes, a jersey cow bolete, bay boletes, a couple of the last of the gypsies and a saffron milk cap. Exciting finds x 3 - an elfin’s saddle, a terracotta hedgehog and a brand new bolete for me - Suillus flavidus or the “jellied bolete” - thanks to the ring on the stipe which melts into a kind of jelly (when I checked my Geoffrey Kibby book and saw that common name plus the habitat info - with pine in bogs, I knew I’d found my ID!). I also stopped by my fave bilberry and lingonberry spot and got a nice wee harvest of each. I saw red kites, buzzards and a sparrow hawk as well as a teeny tiny froglet too. Nothing soothes my soul better than a day like this. #wildmushrooms #mushroomhunting #forage #foraging #wildfood #wildfoodlove #eatwild #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriday #fungiphotography #fungilove #mushroomsociety #mycology #visitscotland #visitaberdeenshire #seasonal #naturelover #naturegram