mornin' all

[dazdidge]

Hi folks, just joined the forum and thought I would say a quick hello. Just started getting interested in fungi/mushrooms (especially edible ones) through a family member who had a book by Roger Phillips? Anyway I started reading it and found it quite interesting. I have now bought the River Cottage mushroom book, but am also waiting for a delivery of the Roger Phillips book coming into my local bookshop. I am not interested purely in edible species and would like to know more about all types found in Britain, are there any more books/websites you can recommend for identification, obviously I won't be eating anything until I have done a lot more research and managed to accurately ID a number of species. The only one I can positively ID is Psilocybe Semilanceata, but it was in my youth and haven't had the misspleasure of eating any for a good few years, not something I personally would recommend!

Cheers
darren

[Stewy]

Hello Darren,

Roger Phillips has a wesite: Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference

[goosey]

Hi Darren, fungi has only become a recent fascination for me - the shapes and colours really intrigued me and wanted to find out more about them - or at least get an ID. I can recognise 16 now! only a few thousand to go . Enjoy your new hobby and welcome to WAB!

[chazzpott]

Welcome to WAB dazdidge. If you're into fungi then this is the site to be on. there are some very knowledgeable people here, and they enjoy sharing it. Happy foraging.

[cherrybee]

Hi Darren and a very warm welcome to WAB

[naturelover]

hi darren bit late cos its 4.45pm but welcome to wab enjoy.

[Leif]

I think with Phillips you have one of the best popular guides available.

There are a few good web sites, such as the Fungi of California:

The Fungi of California

But you might like many of us simply use Google as a way to find a wealth of information on fungi. Although there is some misinformation out there, a lot of it is good.