The Warwickshire fungus survey has finished its work. It has been formally dissolved but a few of the remaining
members are planning to keep in touch so they can talk about their finds and sometimes take walks together to look for fungi.
For anyone in the Midlands area, with similar
interests who would like to meet us we will shortly be supplying contact addresses below. Contacts
The Survey
The survey was started in 1965, at the suggestion of Dr. Nancy Montgomery, and with the close co-operation of Dr Gill Brand,
ne้ Butler, then both of Birmingham University.
An enthusiastic group of amateur and professional mycologists, worked during the following fifteen years to produce the Fungus
Flora of Warwickshire. This group was the first of its kind anywhere, devoting itself to the identification of fungi, lichens and
myxomycetes. The group was the mycological section of Birmingham Natural History Society. The society employed its resources to
aid the production of the Flora.
The Fungus Flora was published in 1980 by the British Mycological Society and edited by the late Malcolm Clark. It contains
detailed records of the fungi found in the area, at least one specimen with detailed notes was dried and kept in the herbarium.
It was obvious, even with the publication of the Flora that new species were still turning up, and that the Survey was well
worth carrying on. Since 1980, supplements have been published in the Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society. New
members continue to join us.
For anyone who would like to refer to the archived 'Warwickshire Fungus Survey' website. Warwickshire Fungus Survey
