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Banded Mottlegill |
Panaeolus cinctulus |
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A small fungus with a brown cap that dries paler found growing in trooping groups on manured ground and also compost heaps. |
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Bay Bolete |
Boletus badius |
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The Bay Bolete is an edible fungi that has a rounded cap that expands and flattens with age. It can be deep brown, reddish brown or even orange-brown in colour. The cap is sticky when wet and... |
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Bay Cup |
Peziza badia |
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The Bay Cup is one of the commonest of the Peziza species. The cup has a smooth inner surface that is dark brown or reddish-brown while the outer surface is a similar colour but is finely granular... |
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Bay Polypore |
Polyporus durus |
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Beach Cup |
Disciotis venosa |
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A large, brown irregularly shaped fungus found either solitary or in troops on soil, moss or light grass in open woodland. |
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Beaked Earthstar |
Geastrum pectinatum |
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This fungus has a whitish, star-shaped base, which raises the pointed "bulb" that sits atop it above the surrounding substrate. Found growing either solitary or in small troops on... |
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Bearded Milk Cap |
Lactarius pubescens |
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A creamy-buff agaric exuding milk found either solitary or in scattered groups on sandy soil with Birch. |
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Bearded Tooth |
Hericium erinaceus |
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Large,pure white fruiting body of dramatic appearance,cushion-like with long pendulous spines;solitary;growing from wounds on living broad-leaf trees favouring beech. |
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Beech Jellydisc |
Neobulgaria pura var. foliacea |
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Beech Jellydisc |
Neobulgaria pura |
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Beech Milkcap |
Lactarius blennius |
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The Beech Milkcap has a very sticky cap that can be a combination of whitish, grey, olive and reddish brown. At the cap margin there are indistinct darkish zones and dark spots. The stem is also... |
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Beech Woodwart |
Hypoxylon fragiforme |
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Beech Woodwart is a very common species that grows in dense swarms on the trunks and dead and fallen branches of Beech Trees all year round. The fruitbodies are round, hard and crusty and a... |
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Beechleaf Bonnet |
Mycena capillaris |
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Beechmast Candlesnuff |
Xylaria carpophila |
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A very slender and delicate fungus with a whitish fruitbody and blackish tip, found in broadleaf woodland growing on the masts of Beechm often buried under leaf litter. |
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Beechwood Sickener |
Russula nobilia |
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A medium sized Russula that has a scarlet cap and is found growing solitary or in small troops, specifically under Beech. |
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Beefsteak Fungus |
Fistulina hepatica |
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This is an edible, soft fleshed bracket that is usually seen growing on Oak but ocassionally found on Sweet Chestnut trees. It is tongue shaped, oozing red droplets when young and becoming... |
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Bell-shaped Mottlegill |
Panaeolus papilionaceus var. parvisporus |
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Beltrania querna |
Beltrania querna |
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A 'hyphomycete' which occurs on dead leaves of leathery-leaved tree and shrubs, most commonly on Laurus and Quercus ilex (dead leaves of the latter, kept damp and incubated will generally produce... |
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Benzoin Bracket |
Ischnoderma benzoinum |
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A medium to large dark brown bracket that has white pores on the underside and is found growing singly or in tiers on the dead wood of coniferous trees, preferably with Spruce. |
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Big Smoky Bracket |
Bjerkandera fumosa |
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Aniseed smell.
Note the characteristic thin dark-brown line between trama and the lighter tube layer |
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Birch Brittlegill |
Russula betularum |
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A small to medium size fungus with a pale, delicate cap and brittle white gills found growing solitary or in groups on soil, often in moist places under Birch. |
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Birch Conk |
Inonotus obliquus |
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This is it sterile state |
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Birch Knight |
Tricholoma fulvum |
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Birch Knight is a common species associated with Birch trees but also found growing with Spruce. The cap is tawny orange-brown colour, often slightly darker at the centre with a slight... |
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Birch Mazegill |
Lenzites betulinus |
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This bracket fungus is rounded with a fine hairy surface that is off white to grey that is zoned in shades of brown. The distinctive elongated pores resemble gills and are pale... |
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Birch Milkcap |
Lactarius tabidus |
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A small agaric found solitary or in scattered groups with broadleaf tree, preferably with Birch. |
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Birch Polypore |
Piptoporus betulinus |
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This is the commonest species of bracket fungi to be found in Birch Woods and is the cause of many trees dying. It is very host specific, hardly ever being absent from Birch Woods. The... |
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Birch Woodwart |
Hypoxylon multiforme |
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A blackish, cushion shaped crustclustered on dead branches with bark, especially Birch trees and occasionally other broadleaf trees. |
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Bisporella sulfurina |
Bisporella sulfurina |
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Found growing on broadleaf trees, gregarious to clustered, fruiting in association with a pyrenomycete. |
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Bitter Beech Bolete |
Boletus calopus |
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Cap smoke or clay-grey-beige or flushed ochraceous with age. Downy at first then smooth. Pores pale lemon yellow to dirty sulhur with age bruising 'turqoise' blue. Stem stocky, lemon yellow at apex,... |
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Bitter Bolete |
Tylopilus felleus |
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There are a number of Boletes that are inedible and are distinctly bitter to taste, the Tylopilus felleus is one of these and can be easily mistaken for Boletus edulis.... |
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Bitter Oysterling |
Panellus stipticus |
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A kidney-shaped fungus wit a pale yellow cap found, usually clustered on fallen branches and trunks of broadleaf trees, usually Oak. |
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Black Bovist |
Bovista nigrescens |
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An uncommon puffball growing in pastures and meadows during Summer and Autumn but persisting in an old, dried out state for many months. |
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Black Bulgar |
Bulgaria inquinans |
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Fruit body 1-4cms across. rubbery globose , the margins tightly inrolled when young, brownish, the exterior scurty, later expanding and then flattening with a smooth black disc. spores. kidney-... |
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Black Morel |
Morchella Elata |
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This locally common fungus is found on the ground in parks and open woodland with both deciduous and conifer trees. |
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Black Tooth |
Phellondon niger |
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Blackening Russula |
Russula nigricans |
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A large Russula that has a distinctive blackening cap and thick gills, found either solitary or in scattered troops on soil with coniferous or broadleaf trees. |
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Blackening Waxcap |
Hygrocybe conica |
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This is one of the most common of the waxcaps. The distinquishing feature is that the entire fungus slowly blackens with age, even after collecting. |
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Blackfoot Polypore |
Polyporus leptocephalus |
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Bleached Brittlegill |
Russula exalbicans |
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Bleeding Bonnet |
Mycena sanguinolenta |
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Bleeding Broadleaf Crust |
Stereum rugosum |
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An encrustation or small bracket that is found, often in overlapping tiers on stumps and rotting wood of broadleaf trees, favouring Oak. |
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Bleeding Conifer Crust |
Stereum sanguinolentum |
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This image shows a rather dry specimen but at least it was still bleeding where scored.
On conifer log. |
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Bleeding Oak Crust |
Stereum gausapatum |
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A pale buff encrustation or bracket often found in overlapping tiers in broadleaf woodland on stumps and dead wood, faouring Oak. |
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Blistered Cup |
Peziza vesiculosa |
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This cup fungus is found in dense clusters on manure and manure rich ground all rear round but particularly during Autumn. |
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Bloodred Webcap |
Cortinarius sanguineus |
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A smallish fungus that is dark blood-red throughout found growing either solitary or in scattered troops with conifers. |
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Blue Roundhead |
Stropharia caerulea |
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A bluish-green to yellow-green fungus found in grassland from late Summer until Autumn. |
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Blue Spot Knight |
Tricholoma columbetta |
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A large and fleshy fungus that is whitish throughout found growing on soil in broadleaf woodland. |
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Bluebell Rust |
Uromyces muscari |
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Blushing Bracket |
Daedaleopsis confragosa |
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This species is found in damp areas, along stream banks and bogs growing on old stumps and branches of broadleaved trees, especially Willow and causes a white rot. This species has... |
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Blushing Rosette |
Abortiporus biennis |
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A white to grey irregularly shaped cap often found fused with other caps at the foot of deciduous and coniferous trees. |
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Blushing Wood Mushroom |
Agaricus silvaticus |
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Found in small troops on both broadleaf and conifer woods, this edible fungus can be found from Summer till Autumn. |
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Blushing Wood Mushroom |
Agaricus silvaticus |
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A. silvaticus is one of a group of mushrooms that stain red when bruised or cut, grow in woodland and are often difficult to tell apart. |
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Bog Beacon |
Mitrula paludosa |
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This small yellow species is found from Spring to Summer, often in large number in boggy woods on plant debris or leaf litter. |
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Bolete Mould |
Hypomyces chrysospermus |
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A powdery, mold-like covering that is at first white, then golden yellow, and finally reddish brown. |
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Boletus aereus |
Boletus aereus |
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A medium to large sized edible Bolete that favours broadleaf woodland, especially Beech and Oak trees, fruiting from Summer to early Autumn. |
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Bonfire Scalycap |
Pholiota highlandensis |
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A small to medium sized fungus with a slimy tan cap, found growing solitary or in clusters on burnt ground or woody debris. |
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Bovine Bolete |
Suillus bovinus |
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This small bolete prefers acid soils in coniferous woodland and is associated with two-needle pines, often growing alongside Rosy Spike (Gomphidius roseus) |
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Bramble Stem Rust |
Kuehneola uridinis |
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Branched Oyster Fungus |
Pleurotus cornucopiae |
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Note how the gills descend down the stipe (stem) becomming criss-crossed into the typical 'diamond' pattern of this species. |
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Brick Tuft |
Hypholoma lateritium |
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Found usually in tufts, this brick-red species inhabits broadleaf woodland |
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Brittle Cinder |
Kretschmaria deusta |
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An irregular, greyish-white cushion like fungus that becomes blackened when old, similar to charred wood, growing on rotting stumps and roots of broadleaf trees, especially Beech. |
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Brown Birch Bolete |
Leccinum scabrum |
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The Brown Birch Bolete can reach large sizes and is a common, tall species of fungus associated with Birch trees, with which it forms a mycorrhizal relationship, fruiting from Summer to... |
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Brown Mottlegill |
Panaeolina foenisecii |
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A small brown fungus that dries paler from the centre to the cap margin, found in trooping groups on soil in Parks, lawns and grassland. |
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Brown Rollrim |
Paxillus involutus |
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Fruiting from Spring till Autumn, found in wet or damp places, usually deciduous woodland but sometimes with conifers. |
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Bruising Webcap |
Cortinarius purpurascens |
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This fungus grows in both broadleaf and coniferous woodland, preferring an acid soil. It has a dark, reddish brown cap that is sticky when wet. The cap spreads and flattens with age. The gills are... |
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Bulbillomyces farinosus |
Bulbillomyces farinosus |
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Bulbous Bonnet |
Mycena stylobatea |
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Small Mycena with distinctive bulbous base and "shark fin" hooks on the pileus |
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Bulbous Honey Fungus |
Armillaria gallica |
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This species usually appear alone, gregariously, or in tufts, usually appearing terrestrial (but actually... |
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Burgundydrop bonnet |
Mycena haematopus |
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Cap conical to bell-shaped, grey-brown with clay-pink tint, striate at margin when moist, drying light pink.Stem pink excuding deep blood-red latex when broken, often fused together to form trufts.... |
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Butter Cap |
Collybia butyracea |
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This fungus is a common species often found in large numbers. It has a greasy, grey-brown to red-brown cap with an umbo and the stem, which is dry and fibrous, is slender at the top and club... |
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Butter Waxcap |
Hygrocybe ceracea |
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A small, yellow fungus with a greasy cap and dry stem found in small trooping groups in short or mown grassleand. |
