St Georges's Mushroom
Tricholoma Gambosum
According to this week's cover illustrator, a mycologist with roots in Russia, Palestine, Swaffham Prior and Bulgaria, the St. George's Mushroom is a delicious white, fleshy mushroom found in pastureland and the outskirts of woodland. Traditionally it appears around the 23rd of April, St. George's Day, though often maturing a week later. It is easily identified because no other white mushroom grows during this season. There are two known places where it grows in Cambridgeshire. See you there, but please take the usual precautions when dealing with mushrooms.