Mushrooms and Fungi

A bright-orange fungus that can look like discarded orange peel.

A very common mushroom used for cooking but of highly variable for and often confused wiith other species.

A small mushroom, pale-red to brown in colour and around 2 to 10cm tall.

A mushroom usually found in dense clusters on dead wood. The cap and stem are often buff brown, growing paler later.

Small delicate mushrooms in clusters on dead wood and tree stumps with a brown-ish stem and paler bell-shaped cap.

A trooping mushroom 10 to 18cm tall mushroom with a white stem and pale-grey cap - usually 5 to 10cm.

Entomophthora muscae or Fly Death Fungus is a pathogenic fungus which causes a fatal disease in flies.The word Entomophthora means “insect destroyer.”

The Oyster Mushroom is a large fungus that has a distinctive fan or oyster shaped cap.

Green Elfcup is a beautiful bluish-green cup fungus.

Slender Club is a tall, spindly, extremely thin, thread-like club fungus measuring no more than 1mm thick.

Candlesnuff Fungus is a club-like fungus that grows between 2cm and 5cm high and looks like a burnt candle wick.

Wrinkled Crust is an orange crust fungus.

Hen of the Woods is widespread but occasional in Britain.

The small orange spots of Coral Spot are very distinctive.

The Common Eyelash is a shallow disc shape, which usually grows to between 0.2 cm and 1 cm in diameter.

Tan Ear is cup shaped, lopsided, irregularly wavy and split down the shorter side.

The Matt Bolete has a cap that ranges in colour. Most often dark red-brown or chestnut, but can be light brown, greyish-brown, olive-brown and occasionally dark grey that appears black.

Jellybaby is a rubbery fungi.

Black Bulgar is sometimes referred to as Bachelor’s Buttons or Rubber Buttons.

Small Stagshorn is a jelly fungus that looks rather like a club fungus, but is much less brittle and found on wood.

White Spindles is the most common of the many fairy clubs

Yellow Club fungus is a bright yellow or orange-yellow fungus that is paler towards the base.

The Lilac Fibrecap is very poisonous and its consumption can be fatal.

Amber Jelly is a orange-brown or amber, gelatinous fungus.

Brittle Cinder is easily spotted when it is young, but old fruitbodies look more like cinders or charred wood and can easily be missed.

Birch Woodwart produce irregular hard, black warty growths, which house tiny fruiting bodies.

Split Porecrust is a crust fungus, that grows as if the cap of the fungus is attached to the wood instead of the stalk.

The Bog Beacon is a matchstick-like fungus, that can grow up to 5cm tall.

The Hairy Curtain Crust gets it’s name from the hairy upper surface and rippled edges, which look like partly drawn curtains.

The Orange Bonnet has small orange-red caps, up to 1 cm in diameter, sitting on slender yellowish stems up to 6 cm long.

Dead Man’s Fingers appear throughout the year on beechwood stumps and also occasionally on other buried hardwoods.

A golden yellow to orange, slimy looking Jelly Fungi that can be found growing on trees.

A small white mushroom with a fibrous looking silky surface.

A mottled looking mushroom with an interesting stem.

A purple mushroom with a pink-flushed stem.

A bright yellow to ochre yellow mushroom found in damp places around Birch trees.

A strange white crust that forms patches enveloping living plants.

A brown (from pale yellow to rich, red brown) capped mushroom.

A mainly white, porcelain type fungus has a slimey or shiney look.

A small bell-shaped (sometimes curved back and split) capped mushroom covered in glistening powder.

An attractive wine red or plum coloured mushroom with yellow gills. Found on decayed conifer wood especially pine, from late summer to late autumn.

A white or cream, bracket like oyster fungus that is often found on hardwood trees and rarely conifers.

A very large and brightly coloured lemon-yellow to orange fan shaped fungus.

A bright and shiny mushroom with orange-brown cap when young, maturing to paler yellow.

A funnel shaped, pink or buff to ochre coloured mushroom that sometimes forms fairy rings.

Jelly Rot is a strange pale bracket fungi, with a rubbery gelatinous texture.

The Pestle Puffball grows upwards with a rounded top like a pestle and is pale coloured when young and matures to brown.

A distinctive lilac to purple mushroom.

The Panther Cap mushroom is ochre-brown and often covered in white fragments of the veil.

A grey and brown-ish conical mushroom that was once used to make ink.

A small, brick red coloured mushroom with gills.

A purple mushroom with darker centre and white stem.

A shaggy looking white mushroom with buff at the centre.

An orange to tawny coloured mushroom with scaly stem and a few scales on top.

A blue green or greyish coloured mushroom with blue-white gills and stem.

A very common mushroom with bright yellow to tan colour.

A scruffy looking, tan coloured mushroom with a matching colour stem.

Round-ish shaped dark brown to black fungus that looks like King Alfred’s burned cakes from the popular tale.

A wrinkled looking white to pale tan coloured fungi.

A large, cream and brown coloured, scaly bracket fungus with tubes.

A cream to pale-pink coloured fungi with interesting “toothed” underside.

A jelly-like purple blob looking fungus.

A jelly-like pale-pink or flesh-coloured, blob looking fungus.

Velvet Shank

A small pale-orange cup with bright red interior surface.

A distinctive, red and often white-spotted mushroom.

A tiny mushroom that is a grey-ish, rounded cone shape but flattens then becomes concave with age.

A fairly large, pale-coloured fungus that is said to resemble a cauliflower.

A large bracket fungus with a red or orange top and pale underside.

A tiny red to orange mushroom with paler gills.

A small bell-shaped mushroom becoming flat disc-shaped with age.

A large, grey to brown bracket fungus with pale underside.

A small mushroom with white stem and cherry or blood-red cap.