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Common Name	Scientific Name	Description
Galerina mniophila	Galerina mniophila	A small bell-shaped yellowish dirty-brown fungus, found growing amongst moss in woodlands.
Galerina mycenopsis	Galerina mycenopsis
Ganoderma adspersum	Ganoderma adspersum	This bracket fungus is perennial and is parasitic on deciduous trees, usually found on the lower part of the trunks. The brown, powdery spore deposit can...
Ganoderma pfeifferi	Ganoderma Pfeifferi	bracket with a lacquer on the cap.
Ghost Bolete	Leccinum holopus	A smallish bolete with a whitish cap growing either solitary or in groups on soil with Birch.
Giant Clitocybe	Leucopaxillus giganteus	Found growing alone, scattered, or in large arcs and ...
Giant Polypore	Meripilus giganteus	A huge compound rosette of soft, fan-shaped caps with pores growing from the base of broadleaf trees and stumps.
Giant Puffball	Calvatia gigantea	An easily recognised fungus by it's often massive size. Generally round and white with irregular lobes and a thick leathery skin, which is easily peeled away. There may be white cords where it is...
Girdled Webcap
Glazed Cup	Humaria hemisphaerica	A brown and white cup found growing on soil in troops or on very rotten wood.
Glistening Inkcap	Coprinellus micaceus	This fungus is found in dense clusters among and around the base of rooting trees and fallen broadleaf wood of all kinds.
Glutinous Waxcap	Hygrocybe glutinipes var. glutinipes	A small bright yellow fungus that is viscid in damp weather and can be found growing in soil among damp grass and moss.
Golden Pholiota	Pholiota aurivella	This fungus has a sticky cap with dark-brown scales that are easily shed in the rain, it grows in tufts on broadleaf trees.
Golden Waxcap	Hygrocybe chlorophana	A small yellowish-orange fungus with a sticky cap found usually in small troops on soil in cropped or short grassland.
Goldleaf Shield	Pluteus romellii	A medium sized fungusfound growing solitary or in small groups in deciduous woodland, usually with Beech, on woody debris or wood chips.
Goliath Webcap	Cortinarius praestans	Cap to 20cms, viscid, violaceous chesnut to chocolate brown. Margin wrinkled, inrolled slightly, typically with white patches of cortina around the edges. Cap when old becomes unrolled large...
Green Dapperling	Lepiota grangei	A smallish fungus that is one of the few Dapperlings with greenish tints, growing singly or in groups with broadleaf trees in disturbed palces such as roadsides and coppices.
Green Elfcup	Chlorociboria aeruginascens	Initially shaped like a goblet with a very short stem, the fruit bodies flatten with age and develop wavy edges. Individual fruit bodies are 0.5 to 1cm in diameter and usually less than 1cm tall. The...
Green Russula	Russula virescens	A medium to large Russula that has a pale green cap with dark patches, found growing solitary or in scattered groups on soil under broadleaf trees, preferably with Beech.
Grey Coral	Clavulina cinerea	Grey coral like fungus with extensively branching fruiting bodies found growing solitary or in small groups on soil in woodland, often along woodland trails.
Grey Knight	Tricholoma terreum	A large fleshy fungus with a felty grey cap found in trooping groups in coniferous woodland and occasionally with broadleaf trees,
Grey Milkcap	Lactarius Vietus	A small greyish agaric, exuding milk that grows solitary or in groups in damp places, preferably with Birch.
Grey Spotted Amanita	Amanita excelsa var. spissa	A largish, brownish-grey, stout fungus which is very variable, and hard to distinguish when older. It has recently become known as the Grey Spotted Amanita.
Grisette	Amanita vaginata	Unlike many other Amanita species, Amanita vaginata - the Grisette - does not have a ring on its stem. Grisettes are not poisonous , but they are easily confused with Death Caps.
Grooved Bonnet	Mycena polygramma	A small,grey-brown fungus that has a broad, conical cap found growing in small troops on rotted stumps and branches of deciduous trees and occasionally coniferous wood.
Gymnopilus dilepis	Gymnopilus dilepis	A beautiful toadstool which is bright purple when young, (resembling Tricholompsis rutilans but with a ring), rapidly fading to orange-brown. Originally from South East Asia where it grows on old...