The fruiting bodies of mushrooms are the bits we see. It's often the case therefore that a good year for apples and soft fruit is also a good year for fungi.
That goes some way to brightening up Blacka's most depressing hillsides with various examples including waxcaps.
The conservation officials who claim that fungi here are so special as to justify SSSI and hence over management using sheep to stop trees growing are, not for the first time, talking rubbish. My garden's grassy areas have no sheep, it's surrounded by trees and is at present covered by mushrooms including waxcaps, some the same as on this hillside.
The truth is that any unimproved grassland (i.e. no fertiliser or weedkiller has been used ) will produce a similar variety of fungi. Management is what is used to stop fungi appearing.
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