Fungi in heat-stricken Europe

It just happens so that a couple of my family members are travelling to opposite parts of Europe, South West and North East, and of course they are sending me photos of mushrooms.

Despite the heatwave, I am delighted to see that there is still some fungal activity at both these extremes. Not surprisingly though, in both cases they are bracket fungi, which are less dependent on rain, because, well, we haven't had much of that recently.

Meet the Chicken of the Woods, Lithuanian Baltic coast.

As can be seen, when discovered it was still young and moist and, according to the reports, delicious.

Meanwhile, in Spain, there are these beauties:

Not entirely sure what they are - probably turkey tails, desiccated and bleached by sun. It was above 40 degrees Celsius that weekend!

So not surprisingly, the only other type of mushroom that survived these condition was this one.

Ahh, if only it was small enough to fit into luggage...

In Scotland, there were some fungi, too. But perhaps that's a topic for a separate post.