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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| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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,... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| 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, . |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Hemitrichia clavata | Hemitrichia clavata |
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A myxomycete |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Hymenostilbe muscarium | Hymenostilbe muscarium |
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This may be the imperfect state of Cordyceps forquignonii (a fly-attacking species) |
| 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... |