Mushroom fruiting changes tied to global warming

GrrlScientist passes on the results of a study involving 52,000 sightings of mushrooms over a 50-year period.

"A unique research project has revealed that rising temperatures are affecting fungi in southern England by allowing mushrooms to grow during the winter when they never did before, and to fruit earlier and later, as well as more often."

I had noticed something that ties in; the coral and the tapioca slime that we discovered in the Watershed Park last week, according to the Guide, should be showing up in July or thereabouts, through the fall. Not in the springtime.

I'll be checking expected dates more carefully from now on.