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Seeing a considerable surge over the last few weeks and happy to spot these wonderful tasty mushrooms. The name suggests they are considered a winter mushroom but there they are generally out quite nicely in Autumn. I do find them more often in huge quantities in winter time visiting my known locations as they are mycorrhizal. The winter statement is more to do with how hardy to the frost they are and plucking quantities frozen in January and enjoying through the colder months has become a tradition for me.

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KEY IDENTIFIERS - With their yellow legs (another name for them is yellow legged / yellow foot) - ridges rather than gills that runs down the yellow stipe which is hollow and irregular sort of folding into itself - brown trumpet/funnel shaped cap - (ONCE ID’D) peppery in taste

Growing up these finds were in predominantly beech woodlands checking around fallen branches to spot the yellow legs and reveal to me as my eyes adjust. Nowadays I’m always stopping by coniferous woodlands and especially Hemlock/Tsuga plantations seem best right now in the south east.

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