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Fungal Diary - July & Summer season field trips No. 1 - In search of St. David

St. Nons, Pembrokeshire, Wales

July - 1 July - 2 July - 3 July - 4 July - 5 July - 6 July - 7 July - 8
22 July fairy ring champion

at St. Nons

Field Mushroom Agaricus Campestris by the sea sorting the crop real thing


The remains of St. Nons Chapel, near St. David's, the smallest city in Britain, is built on the site where the saint supposedly gave birth to David, the patron saint of Wales. A holy well springs forth near the chapel. The site faces south in a shallow dip that slopes towards the cliffs and sea. A ring of small standing stones maybe 200 metres across encircles the chapel. More, lager stones can be seen in fields nearby but the stone circle and other stone are not marked on the Ordinance survey map and no mention is made of them in information relating to the chapel and well. I found fairy ring mushrooms beside one stone and several rings of perfect Field mushrooms (Agaricus Campestris) in the field. Later these were served with spaghetti, cream, nutmeg and parmesan as the sun sank towards Ireland.

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