Looking through my old mushroom photographs there’s a very distinctive one; it’s Pholiota squarrosa, the Shaggy Scalycap which I found in Bovey Tracey in 2005: Here it is in Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms by James Sowerby from 1797: Sowerby was a brilliant observer and supremely talented artist. … Continue reading Shaggy Scalycaps, gout and squirrels