Fungal Foray and Food for Free, Humbie Woods. Leader: Neville Kilkenny. We will survey the mycoflora of Humbie woods, looking out for any edibles. If we find any, we may finish the day with tastings chez Chamberlain. Meet 10.30am at the car park of Humbie Church NT462637. Please let us know if you intend to come so that we can share transport. Enquiries to Maria.Chamberlain@ed.ac.uk.
Highlights include a single patch of Crithmum maritimum nearing its northern limit on the East Coast, Trifolium fragiferum, and a large naturalised patch of Clematis tangutica. Meet 10.20 at Leith St., Edinburgh to catch X6 bus, OR Meet 11.25 at Car Park opposite West Barns Inn, West Barns [NT 655781]. Enquiries to R.Milne@ed.ac.uk.
East Wemyss foreshore boulders provide a wealth of Carboniferous plant fossils, about 335 million years old. We hope to find roots, stems and leaves of the giant club moss Lepidodendron; horsetail stem and leaves, Calamites; fronds of seed ferns, Neuropteris (Pteridospermatophyta); and more...
