This bright and beautiful winter mushroom is our wild native version of the Asian cultivated enokitake.  

Green and delicate sweet, mild seaweed at the top of the shoreline and forageable even in the middle of winter

This unassuming red seaweed hides  amazing culinary properties in small, tough fronds

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Low night temperatures trigger this delicious and abundant fungus to fruit

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Another ubiquitous weed with edible leaves and flowers, and fragrant roots 

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The scent and flavour of this small, coarse seaweed pack a tremendous punch

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This parasitic fungus is famous for the traditional medicinal use of its sclerotium 

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While most leaves have fallen, dry brown leaves still cling to some beech trees and hedges

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Throughout winter, even in snow, pungent papery seeds cling to the desiccated flower umbels of common hogweed