Walking in the Forest Around the Monastery of Grandmont

On Thursday 20 October I hiked 7 kilometres with French friends through the forest around the former monastery farm of Grandmont, near Le Grand Pressigny. There were a lot of mushrooms sprouting up all over. We cut the walk short because the weather was grumbling away and threatening a storm.

Walking past a lovely oak tree.

Parasol Mushroom Macrolepiota procera (Fr. Coulemelle).

Weather coming in.

False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca (Fr. Fausse girolle).

A large unidentified bolete (maybe an old Edible Cep Boletus edulis, known as Cepe de Bordeaux in French).

A mushroom that looks like it has been attacked by Scrambled Egg Slime Mould Fuligo septica (Fr. Fleur de tan), we think.

The dozens of vertical white 'sticks' are a large colony of Magpie Inkcaps Coprinopsis picacea (Fr. Coprin pie)

Upright Coral Ramaria stricta (Fr. Clavaire droite).

Probably Freckled Dapperling Echinoderma asperum (Fr. Lépiote à lames fourchues).

Hoof Fungus Fomes fomentarius (Fr. Amadouvier).

Hoof Fungus Fomes fomentarius (Fr. Amadouvier).