One of the questions we get asked a lot is “what will we find on this event?” or “will we find X on this event?”. As advertised on our event listings and in various other places around our website, our events focus on the ‘Four F’s of Foraging’, which is a catchy way of referring to fungi, fruit, flowers and foliage. What this means is that we aim to find a huge array of all sorts of species, but hyper-seasonality is always at the forefront of every workshop - expect more greens in spring, expect more mushrooms in autumn - but, of course, predicting what we will find is nigh on impossible. There are simply too many variables and species to find out there!

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To excite you about what it is that you might discover on your event with Forage Box, we thought it was worth sharing a combined species list from one of our regular venues, taken from across one calendar year. This lengthy list is every single thing we have looked at across all four seasons in one location, which doesn’t even include the less interesting things we skipped past or forgot to note down!

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The list:

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Amethyst deceiver

Angelica

Artists conk

Bay bolete

Beech

Beech milkcap

Beefsteak fungus

Birch milkcap

Birch polypore

Bistort

Blackening brittlegill

Blackthorn

Blusher

Blushing wood mushroom

Bramble

Branched oyster

Broadleaf Plantain

Brown Mottlegill

Brown rollrim

Buttercap

Candlesnuff fungus

Charcoal burner

Cherry

Chestnut

Chicken Of The Woods

Chickweed

Chinese crabapple

Cleavers

Clouded agaric

Club foot

Clustered bonnet

Collared earthstar

Common bonnet

Common funnel

Common hogweed

Common puffball

Common sorrel

Cow bolete

Cow parsley

Crabapples

Crimson waxcap

Cuckoo flower

Damson

Dandelion

Deceiver

Deer shield

Dock

Dogs mercury

Dryads saddle

Earthball

Elder

Elfin saddle

Fairy inkcap

False turkeytail

Flowering currant

Fly agaric

Fools watercress

Forget-me-not

Garlic mustard

Giant polypore

Giant puffball

Golden waxcap

Gorse

Grey-spotted amanita

Ground elder

Hairy bittercress

Hawthorn

Hen of the woods

Herb robert

Himalayan balsam

Honey fungus

Honeysuckle

Hops

Hosta

Japanese knotweed

Jelly baby

Jelly ear

King Alfreds cake

Lime

Lords and ladies

Macro mushroom

Magnolia

Meadow puffball

Meadow waxcap

Meadowsweet

Miller

Mugwort

Mulberry

Oak

Opposite-leaf golden saxifrage

Orange peel fungus

Parrot waxcap

Pestle puffball

Pine

Pineapple weed

Poppy

Porcini

Purple brittlegill

Raspberries

Red cracking Bolete

Ribwort plantain

Rooting bolete

Rose

Rowan

Scarlet elf cup

Scarlet waxcap

Shaggy bracket

Shaggy inkcap

Shaggy parasol

Shaggy scalycap

Sheep sorrel

Sickener

Snowy waxcap

Spring fieldcap

St Georges mushroom

Stagshorn sumac

Stinging nettle

Stinkhorn

Stinking brittlegill

Sulphur tuft

Sweet woodruff

Tawny funnel

Three-cornered leek

Trooping funnel

Ugly milkcap

Velvet shank

Vetch

Water pepper

Wavy bittercress

Wild apple

Wild garlic

Wild strawberry

Wood avens

Wood mushroom

Wood sorrel

Yellow swamp brittlegill

Yew

Turkeytail

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That’s quite the roll call, isn’t it?! Now, naturally, we cannot guarantee that you will find every single one of these if you attend every event at this location next year, but there is certainly a good chance, and you may also end up finding some new ones to add to this list. Part of foraging is the adventure, the uncertainty about what you’ll find and the hyper-seasonality of those species that you do. So, to those unsure about what discoveries they will make, please remember this when booking: ‘It is a safari, not a zoo’. 

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