Cream

White Helleborine

Facts
Scientific Name: 
Cephalanthera damasonium
Also Known As : 
Pale Helleborine
Colours: 
Cream
White

Common Gromwell

Facts
Scientific Name: 
Lithospermum officinale
Height : 
up to 1m
Also Known As : 
Graymile, Grummel, Grey Millet, Pearlplant, Stoneseed
Colours: 
Cream

Primrose-peerless

Facts
Scientific Name: 
Narcissus x medioluteus
Also Known As : 
April-beauty, Butter-and-eggs, Cemetery-ladies, Two-flowered Daffodil, Loving-couples, Pale Narcissus, Primrose-pearl, Lent Rose, Sweet Nancy, Twin-sisters, Whit-sunday
Information
Description : 

 A natural hybrid between the Bunch-flowered Daffodil (Narcissus tazetta) and the Pheasant's-eye Daffodil (Narcissus poeticus). The flowers are generally white or pale yellow with a yellow to orange corona. The leaves are narrow and strap-shaped. The plant grows from a bulb and flowers between March and May.

Distinguishing Features: 

 Flowers generally held in pairs

Distribution : 

Occurring in most parts of the British Isles

Status : 

 Garden escape, occasionally established.

Habitat : 

 Fields, roadsides and other grassy places.

Colours: 
Cream
Orange
White
Yellow

Warted Amanita

Common Name: 
Warted Amanita
Scientific Name : 
Amanita strobiliformis
Description: 

This is an often massive fungi that has a creamish white cap covered in thick fragments of veil, very often with veil fragments hanging off the cap edge. The gills are cowded, pale cream and the stout stem has a thick ring near the top. The stem is bulbous at the base with rings or ridges of veil on the upper portion. The fungus may smell of old ham.

Spring Fieldcap

Common Name: 
Spring Fieldcap
Scientific Name : 
Agrocybe praecox
Description: 

Agricybe praecox is a variable species that is commonly found in grassland and is difficult to distinguish from others of the same genus.  The cap can reach up to 7cm in diameter and can be a pale tan to off white in colour. The stem is a creamy-white colour and there is a membranous ring.

Poplar Fieldcap

Common Name: 
Poplar Fieldcap
Scientific Name : 
Agrocybe cylindracea
Cap Diameter (mm): 
70-100mm
Stem Height (mm): 
100-150mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
10-15mm
Description: 

Typically in clusters with willow, this fungus is uncommon in the U.K. and is found mainly in the south.

Poison Pie

Common Name: 
Poison Pie
Scientific Name : 
Hebeloma crustuliniforme
Description: 

This poisonous fungus is pale cream to buff coloured with the cap having a central dome and the surface is sticky when wet. The gills are pale-brown and exude tiny drops of clear liquid in damp weather. These drops turn dark brown and trap mature spores. It is found in small troops amongst grass in mixed woodland and parkland.

Peppery Milk Cap

Common Name: 
Peppery Milk Cap
Scientific Name : 
Lactarius piperatus
Cap Diameter (mm): 
130-160mm
Stem Height (mm): 
30-80mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
10-30mm
Description: 

No other white Milkcap has the combination of  extremely crowded gills and white latex, which dries to olive-green.

Netted Crust

Common Name: 
Netted Crust
Scientific Name : 
Byssomerulius corium
Cap Diameter (mm): 
Variable
Cap or Bracket Thickness (mm): 
1-3mm
Description: 

A whitish, small bracket like fungus that grows on the branches of deciduous trees.

Hedgehog Fungus

Common Name: 
Hedgehog Fungus
Scientific Name : 
Hydnum repandum
Cap Diameter (mm): 
100-150mm
Stem Height (mm): 
Up to 80mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
Up to 30mm
Description: 

This fungus is found in troops, rings or clusters in broadleaf and conifer woodland, especially with Spruce, Beech, Oak and Birch.  

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