This will be an introductory talk about macrofungi, especially agarics, i.e. the ones you can easily spot, and mostly the ones that look like what we call toadstools. It will be a celebration of an ancient and indispensable group of organisms that are under increasing threat but which can still be found in the local countryside. The talk will provide a brief outline of fungal origins and structure, look at what sorts of substrates gardens provide for them, using examples from Oxfordshire, and provide some contextual glimpses of what else Oxfordshire has to offer visually and systematically.
