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Hairy Bracket |
Trametes hirsute |
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A thin and smallish annual bracket that is pale cream with concentric zoning and dense silvery hairs found growing either singly or in tiers on dead wood in broadleaf woodland favouring the stumps... |
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Hairy Stereum |
Stereum hirsutum |
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A pale buff coloured encrustation or bracket found in overlapping tiers in broadleaf woodland on stumps and dead wood, favouring Oak. |
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Handsom Club |
Clavulinopsis laeticolor |
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A bright golden-yellow club-like fungus that grows either solitary or in groups in the soil of mixed woodlands. |
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Hapalopilus salmonicolor |
Hapalopilus salmonicolor |
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Hare's Foot Inkcap |
Coprinus lagopus |
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A tall grey coloured fungus growing solitary or in small groups in soil or among leaf litter in shaded woodland and sometimes at the edges of fields. |
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Heath Waxcap |
Hygrocybe laeta var. laeta |
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A small orange-brown fungus that has a very slimy cap and stem that can be found growing in small troops in short cropped grass and in moss, particularly on moorland. |
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Hedgehog Fungus |
Hydnum repandum |
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This fungus is found in troops, rings or clusters in broadleaf and conifer woodland, especially with Spruce, Beech, Oak and Birch. |
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Hedgehog Naucoria |
Phaeomarasmius erinaceus |
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A distinctive species with tiny, pointed scales on the cap resembling a hedgehog's spines. Infrequent to rare found in small groups on the dead wood or twigs of deciduous trees especially willow,... |
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Helvella atra |
Helvella atra |
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This fungus, which has a cup shaped fruiting body that is folded back on itself is found in mixed woodland, . |
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Helvella ephippium |
Helvella ephippium |
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A sadlle-shaped brownish fungus that is found growing either solitary or in small troops on soil in mixed woodland. |
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Hemitrichia calyculata |
Hemitrichia calyculata |
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A myxymycete.
Darken to grey/brown as they age. Spores are finely warted. The real distinquishing feature is the capillitium which have a spiral pattern on their surface so they look like rope,... |
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Hemitrichia clavata |
Hemitrichia clavata |
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A myxomycete |
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Hen of the woods |
Grifola frondosa |
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Hen of the Woods produces large compound clusters of fruitbodies in broadleaved woodland particularly on Oak but can also be found growing on Beech and Chestnut. Grown commercially in Japan where... |
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Herald of Winter |
Hygrophorus hypothejus |
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A small, viscid fungus that has a dark-brown cap and distinctive yellowish gills found growing on soil in coniferous woodland with Pine trees. |
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Honey Fungus |
Armillaria mellea |
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Armillaria mellea is an extremely common fungus of woods, parks and gardens and is parasitic mainly on broadleaved trees, especially Oak and Beech. It can be difficult to identify as it's... |
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Honey Waxcap |
Hygrocybe reidii |
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A small fungus with an orange-scarlet cap found growing in pastureland and fields either singly or in troops. |
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Hoof Fungus |
Fomes fomentarius |
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This bracket fungus grows on trees and stumps of broadleaf trees, especially Beech and Birch and causes a white rot. The fungus can persist for years. |
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Horn of Plenty |
Craterellus cornucopioides |
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Cap 2–8cm across, deeply tubular with flared mouth, becoming irregularly crisped and wavy at the margin, thin and leathery, dark brown to black and scurfy scaly when moist drying paler and greyish... |
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Horse Mushroom |
Agaricus arvensis |
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Large to massive agaric often found growing in rings or trooping groups on grassy soil within pastureland. Cap: At first ovate maturing to convex and expanding, white or cream yellowing slightly... |
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Horsehair Parachute |
Marasmius androsaceus |
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The cap is convex the centre often depressed, clay-pink with red-brown centre. membanous and radially wrinkled.
Stem. black hair-like stiff and tough.
Flesh. white in cap dark in stem, thin.... |
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Humpback Brittlegill |
Russula caerulea |
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A medium sized fungus that is dark vinaceous with an umbonate or papillate cap found either solitary or in scattered troops on soil in coniferous woodland with Pines. |
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Hygrocybe flavescens |
Hygrocybe flavescens |
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A small yellow fungus with a viscid cap that is found growing on soil amongst short, mown or cropped grassland, preferring dry meadows. |
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Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca var pallida |
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca var pallida |
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Hymenoscyphus fructigenus |
Hymenoscyphus fructigenus |
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Fungus Ken says: Long stalks. Common on old shells of hazelnuts and frequent on old acorns, probably does NOT occur on Beech cupules. , Spores 13-21 x 3-4 micrometres (Dennis's measurements) |
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Hymenostilbe muscarium |
Hymenostilbe muscarium |
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This may be the imperfect state of Cordyceps forquignonii (a fly-attacking species) |
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Hypocrea pulvinata |
Hypocrea pulvinata |
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A ascomycete growing on the pore surface of an old Piptoporus betulinus.
Microscopy shows this species has asci containing 16 spores (normally asci contain 8 spores) |
