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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| Ear Pick Fungus | Auriscalpium vulgare |
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The tiny Earpick fungus has a distinctive kidney shaped hairy reddish brown cap with a pler margin. The underside of the cap has pointed teeth... |
| Earthfan | Thelephora terrestris |
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A fungus with fan-shaped rosettes or lobes that can form extensive patches, found growing in debris and leaf-litter in broadleaf and coniferous... |
| Earthy Powdercap | Cystoderma amianthinum |
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The cap of this small inedible species is initially domed but flattens with age and sometimes has a wavy edge. The cap surface can have... |
| Earthy Powdercap | Cystoderna amianthinum |
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This fungus has a yellowish-brown to yellowish cap, a dense coating of granules on the cap and stem and may be found... |
| ectomycorrhizal | ectomycorrhizal | ||
| Egg Shell Slime Mould | Leocarpus fragilis |
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| Egghead Mottlegill | Panaeolus semiovatus var. semiovatus |
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This species, which grows on animal dung is extremely variable in size from just a few millimetres up to 150mm depending on the amout of nutrients... |
| Elaphomyces granulatus | Elaphomyces granulatus |
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Also commonly known as the Deer Truffle it takes its name from the Greek, Elapho- (deer) and Myces (fungus).... |
| Elastic Oysterling | Panellus mitis |
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A white or cream, fan or kidney shaped fungus found growing on branches, twigs or logs in coniferous woodland. |
| Elastic Saddle | Helvella elastica |
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With their irregularly shaped saddles and pale stems, Helvella elastica fungi are commonly found at the edges of woodland footpaths. When properly... |
| Elder Whitewash | Hyphodontia sambuci |
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A white, chalky fungus that is tightly attached to the substrate and has an appearance similar to matt emulsion paint, on wood of deciduous trees... |
| Elfin Saddle | Helvella lacunosa |
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Helvella lacunosa, the Elfin's Saddle, is rather morbid in its appearance, with both the stem and the cap in shades of leaden grey. This species ... |
| Encoelia furfuracea | Encoelia furfuracea |
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A small, saucer shaped, tan or hazel coloured fungus found usually densely clustered on living and less frequently on dead hazel trunks and... |
| Enteridium lycoperdon | Enteridium lycoperdon |
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An large, whitish cushion shaped fungus with a rubbery feel that is found on dead wood of both broadleaf and conifers. |
| Entoloma clypeatum | Entoloma clypeatum |
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A medium-sized fungus with a brownish cap and pinkish gills, found growing solitary or in small trooping groups on soil under trees and bushes of... |
| Entoloma sepium | Entoloma sepium |
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A medium sized fungus found growing solitary or in trooping groups on soil under tree, shrubs of the Rosaceous family such as Hawthorn,... |
| Ergot | Claviceps purpurea |
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| Eucalyptus Deceiver | Laccaria fraterna |
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Distinguished by having 2-spored basidia (see spore image), spore-size, and by its growing with Eucalyptus species. |
| European Pear rust | Gymnosporangium sabinae |
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| Exidia plana | Exidia plana |
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This is a blackish coloured, disc-shaped fungus found growing in broadleaf woodland on dead and rotting logs and also on living trees on... |
| Exidia truncata | Exidia truncata |
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| Eyelash Fungus | Scutellinia subhirtella |
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| Eyelash Fungus | Scutellinia umbrarum |
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A small disc-shaped dull orange fungus that is commonly found growing on bare soil or rotting wood. |