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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 flattened sphere, which holds the powdery gleba with... |
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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 at the top. |
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Dark Fieldcap |
Agrocybe erebia |
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This inedible fungus has a ring on the stem and a consistently brown cap. A few other species of Agrocybe can be... |
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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) |
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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.
Mild taste |
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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 hardwoods. Dead Man's Fingers is a very apt name... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 poisoning. All parts of the specimen remain deadly... |
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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. |
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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 with umber fibres.
Flesh. white, taste and smell... |
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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.. |
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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 mistaken for some Agarics species of fungi but all of... |
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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 cap is large, occasionally sticky and pale cream to... |
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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 material on the inner side.
flesh smells strong,... |
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Dewdrop Mottlegill |
Panaeolus acuminatus |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 to bright orange; hollow, pitted; narrow, conical... |
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Drab Bonnet |
Mycena aetites |
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A small pale-grey fungus found growing solitary or scatered on soil, or on rotting wood. |
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Dripping Bonnet |
Mycena rorida |
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Small whitish fruitbody with the stipe covered in a slimy transparent jelly when fresh |
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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 bearing underside. |
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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 saucer shaped with a margin turned upward in part.... |
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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. |
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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 cap. |
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Dyer's Mazegill |
Phaeolus schweinitzii |
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