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Why autumn 2024 is your best chance to see lots of weird and wonderful fungi

By Rowena Hill, Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, Earlham Institute

The UK and north-western Europe have had a particularly wet 2024. Extreme weather patterns caused by climate change are nothing to celebrate, but there is one group of organisms that will have appreciated all the rain.

Numerous languages have a saying to the effect of “growing like mushrooms after the rain”.…

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