Friday 11 October 2013

SPOTTED ON THE WEB: Magnificent... giant mushrooms...


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The "Spotted on the Web" widget won't save any updates again...
so I thought I'd send readers a quick heads up on a great bit of video.

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"Giant woven willow sculptures of some of the UK's edible mushroom varieties have sprung up on the lawns at Kew Gardens in west London.
Kew's experts look after the largest collection of dried fungi in the world - which also includes more sinister, inedible varieties.

The fungarium at Kew Gardens  is opening to the public on 13 October to mark National Fungus Day. " BBC
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Kew have commisioned an willow sculptor, Tom Hare, to create huge willow mushroom sculptures of edible UK mushroom species.
The video is here and is well worth watching [only 4.5 mins long].
"Take a peek with Bryn Dentinger, Kew's head of mycology - and see artist Tom Hare's larger than life creations. " BBC
Especially to see how he did the Cep!!

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2 comments:

GaynorB said...

These willow sculptures look fantastic. For some reason I missed this post.

Tim said...

Watch the video...
if you haven't already.