Wednesday, 15 February 2012
A to Z of British Fungi
List by Scientific Name
Common Name |
Scientific Name | Primary Image | Description |
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| Daisy Earthstar | Geastrum floriforme |
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This fungus can br found at any time of the year but is rare in the U.K. It consists of a ... |
| Daldinia fissa | Daldinia fissa |
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| Dappled Webcap | Cortinarius bolaris |
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This poisonous species has a red, initially rounded cap that is covered in red scales and flattens with age. The stem has a fine cobweb like zone... |
| Dark Fieldcap | Agrocybe erebia |
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This inedible fungus has a ring on the stem and a consistently brown cap. A few... |
| Dark Honey Fungus | Armillaria ostoyae |
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Note the characteristic double layer of darker scales on the collar-like ring. (Main Image supplied by CloudedYellow) |
| Dawn Brittlegill | Russula aurora |
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Note the characteristic (diagnostic?) red reaction to the application of the chemical sulphovanillin to the stipe (stem) shown in the upper inset.... |
| Dead Man's Fingers | Xylaria polymorpha |
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Xylaria polymorpha, commonly called Dead Man's Fingers, appears throughout the year at the base of beechwood stumps and occasionally on other buried... |
| Dead Moll's Finger | Xylaria longipes |
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Club-shaped fungus that is irregularly shaped with a black surface found growing in braodleaf woodland commonly on Sycamore. |
| Deadly Fibrecap | Inocybe erubescens |
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A deadly poisonous fungus that is found either solitary or in troops in broadleaf woodland, especially with Beech. |
| Deadly Fibrecap | Inocybe erubescens |
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| Death Cap | Amanita phalloides |
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An olive/pale green agaric renowned for its deadly effects on humans. This common mushroom is responsible for 90% of cases of fatal mushroom... |
| Deceiving Bolete | Boletus queletii |
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This is a large or massive Bolete found either solitary or in small groups under deciduous trees in calcareous soil. |
| Deer Shield | Pluteus cervinus |
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Cap bell-shaped then convex to flattened; sepia to dark umber, with radiation streaks. Stem slightly swollen at the base, white, becoming streaked... |
| Delicatula integrella | Delicatula integrella |
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A very small, fungus with a white, bell-shaped cap found in trooping groups on soil, occasionally on wood.. |
| Destroying Angel | Amanita virosa |
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Amanita virosa is a fatally poisonous fungus of damp woodland, especially acidic soil, often growing with Birch and Conifer trees. It can be... |
| Devil's Bolete | Boletus satanus |
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Boletus satanas is found singly or in small numbers in deciduous woods especially with Oak and Beech, preferably on chalky soil. The suede like... |
| Devil's Fingers | Clathrus archeri |
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fruit body 5x4cms egg shaped, whitish volva breaking into 4-8 starfish-like arms up to 10cm long. red to pink, with olivaceous-black spore-bearing... |
| Dewdrop Mottlegill | Panaeolus acuminatus | ||
| Diatrypella quercina | Diatrypella quercina |
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| Dichomitus campestris | Dichomitus campestris |
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Convex, cushion-like, resupinate; pale at first,becoming yellowish or brownish, finally staining dark brown to black troughout. |
| Diderma hemisphaericum | Diderma hemisphaericum |
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A small, whitish, disc-like, stalked fungus that breaks down, revealing powdery brown spores. Found on plant debris and leaves. |
| Diderma testaceum | Diderma testaceum |
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| Dog Stinkhorn | Mutinus caninus |
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Fruit body initially 1-2cmc across , egg-like semir-submerged and whitish-yellow, ruptured by stalk-like receptracle, 10-12cmx high;pale yellow-buff... |
| Dogend | Podostroma alutaceum |
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Fruiting bodies growing singly or clustered, cylindirical to clavate. 20-40 x 5-6mm sometimes bent, upper fertile part whitish when... |
| Drab Bonnet | Mycena aetites |
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A small pale-grey fungus found growing solitary or scatered on soil, or on rotting wood. |
| Dripping Bonnet | Mycena rorida |
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Small whitish fruitbody with the stipe covered in a slimy transparent jelly when fresh |
| Dryad's Saddle | Polyporus squamosus |
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An annual bracket, initially circular or fan-shaped with a creamy-brown upper surface covered in dark brown, concentric, fibrulous scales. Cream pore... |
| Dumontinia tuberosa | Dumontinia tuberosa |
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Fruiting body developing initially as a small ball with an apical opening, progressing to a urn or a goblet shape and finally becoming flat and... |
| Dung Roundhead | Stropharia semiglobata |
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This inedible fungus is commonly found in fields, pastures and meadows on a wide range of animal manure. |
| Dusky Puffball | Lycoperdon nigrescens |
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Very similar to the Common Puffball but is darker in colour with small blackish brown spines, which fall off leavinfg a net-like pattern on the... |
| Dyer's Mazegill | Phaeolus schweinitzii |
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