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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| Fairy Inkcap | Coprinellus disseminatus |
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Note: need to distinguish from the similar Psathyrella pygmaea (see below) - that has cystidia on gill edge, which the Coprinellus lacks. |
| Fairy Ring Champignon | Marasmius oreades |
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A very small and delicate fungus found usually in small trooping groups in braodleaf woodland on the leaves of Oak. |
| False Chanterelle | Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca |
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A yellow to orange funnel-like mushroom often resembling the edible and esteemed Chanterelle. Said to be edible but has been known to cause... |
| False Death Cap | Amanita citrina |
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Amanita citrina, often referred to as the False Death Cap, is an edible fungus; however, care is necessary because it is easily confused with deadly... |
| False Morel | Gyromitra esculenta |
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This fungus has a distinctive, brain-like red-brown cap and is found in coniferous woodland in sandy soils or wood chippings in Spring and Summer... |
| False Saffron Milkcap | Lactarius deterrimus |
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This is one of the most brightly coloured of the milkcaps that is found in rings or troops with Spruce in all sorts of locations. |
| False Turkey Tail | Stereum ostrea | fruit body irregular, semicircular or bracket-like often overlapping.zonate and multircoloured in shades of brown and rust, densely hairy. Fertile... | |
| Felt Saddle | Helvella macropus |
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A small greyish cup on a thin stem that grows either solitary or in small troops on soil in broadleaf woodland and occasionally with... |
| Felted Pinkgill | Entoloma griseocyaneum |
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A small fungus that has a scaly cap and pink gills and a bluish-grey stem found growing in groups amongst grass in parks and grassland... |
| Felted Twiglet | Tubaria conspersa |
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A small, cinnamon-brown fungus that has a cap covered with greyish elar fragments, found growing in trooping groups on soil or wood chips in damp... |
| Field Blewit | Lepista saeva |
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A medium-sized fungus with a pale browinsh cap and a bluish-lilac stem growing on soil in pastures, parks and grassland in groups or rings.. |
| Field Mushroom | Agaricus campestris |
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The Field Mushroom, Agaricus campestris, is the most commonly eaten wild mushroom in the British Isles. Meadows grazed by sheep, cattle or horses... |
| Fiery Milkcap | Lactarius pyrogalus |
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A small to medium sized fungus growing either solitary ot in small groups in soil under Hazel |
| Firerug Inkcap | Coprinellus domesticus |
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A tall fungus found in woodland either solitary or in small tropping groups on stumps, logs ot buried wood. |
| Flaming Scalycap | Pholiota flammans |
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A medium-sized, bright yellow fungus found growing either solitary or in tufts on conifer stumps or fallen trees. |
| Flammulaster granulosus | Flammulaster granulosus |
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A very small and delicate brown fungus that has a bluntly conical cap and is found scattered or in trooping groups on soil among moss... |
| Flammulaster muricatus | Flammulaster muricatus |
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A small pale brown fungus with a pronounced felty to scaly covering on the cap and stem. |
| Flat Oysterling | Crepidotus applanatus |
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A small, tongue-shaped, white fungus found in small overlapping groups on decaying wood. |
| Fleecy Fibrecap | Inocybe flocculosa |
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A small brown fungus, with a soft scaly cap found growing on soil either solitary or in trooping groups in bradleaf woodland, favouring Oak. |
| Fluted Birds Nest | Cyathus striatus |
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A small browb cup-shaped fungus containing whitish "eggs" at the bottom, found sometimes in dense clusters on soul, twigs and plant... |
| Fly Agaric | Amanita muscaria |
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Usually instantly recognisable! Unless rain washes the 'spots' the remains of the veil off the cap and turns it more orange - then it can cause... |
| Fool's Conecap | Conocybe filaris |
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A poisonous fungus that is yellowish-brown in colour and found in grassland, roadsides or on wood chips from Summer till Autumn. |
| Fool's Funnel | Clitocybe rivulosa |
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A lethally poisonous fungus with a shallowly depressed whitish-grey cap the grows in trooping rings on grassland, often in sandy soil. |
| Forked Russula | Russula heterophylla |
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Medium to large sized Russula witha brownish or greenish cap that can be found growing solitary or in small scattered groups on soil with... |
| Fragile Brittlegill | Russula fragilis |
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A smallish russula with a pale purplish cap and brittle white gill growing solitary or in small troops with coniferous and broadleaf trees. |
| Fragrant Funnel | Clitocybe fragrans |
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Cap glattened-convex sometimes slightly depressed, hygrophanous, pale yellowish-brown when wet. whitish-cream when dry with darker centre. margin... |
| Freckled Dapperling | Lepiota aspera |
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This lovely fungus can be found in deciduous woodland, faouring thick undergrowth at the edges of paths, appearing from late Summer until late... |
| Fried Chicken Mushroom | Lyophyllum decastes |
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Usually found growing in dense clusters in disturbed soil on roadbeds, paths, landscaping areas, or occasionally... |
| Fringed Hay-Cap | Panaeolus sphinctrinus |
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| Frosty Bonnet | Mycena adscendens |
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Note 'tiny sugar granules' on pileus surface |
| Frosty Fibrecap | Inocybe maculata |
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A smallish, brown agaric that is found growing either solitary or in trooping groups on calcareous soil with Beech. |
| Frosty Funnel | Clitocybe phyllophila | ||
| Frosty Webcap | Cortinarius hemitrichus |
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This fungus has a grey-brown cap flecked with white veil fragments and a delicate to sharply pointed umbo. The stem in silvery-white becoming... |
| Funeral Bell | Galerina marginata |
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This poisonous fungus has toxins similar to that of the poisonous Amanita species. It is found in both coniferous and deciduous woodland... |