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Common Name	Scientific Name	Description
Laccaria amethystina	Laccaria amethystina	The strong amethyst colours are very obvious when young, but fade to a duller purplish or pale colour when older or dried out.
Laccaria proxima	Laccaria proxima	A smallish reddish brown agaric that is found growing solitary or in scattered groups in poor soil on heaths, bogs and moorland.
Laccaria tortilis	Laccaria tortilis	Found on bare wet ground ,heavy clay type soil alongside a ditch covered with stunted gorse/hawthorn and other low growing shrubs.
Lachnum brevipilosum	Lachnum brevipilosum	A tiny, pure white fungus with a fringed cup found clustered on rotting wood and woody debris.
Lacquered Bracket	Ganoderma lucidum	This bracket is found in broadleaf woodland especially on Chestnut and Oak tree. The upper surface of the bracket is reddish brown to purplish or blackish red with a polished sheen. This is an...
Lactarius circellatus	Lactarius circellatus	A greyish-brown fungus with whitish, yellow gills that exude milk found either solitary or in scattered groups on soil under Hornbeam.
Lactarius Fluens	Lactarius fluens	A medium sized fungus that exudes copious amounts of milk, found growing in soil either solitary or in scattered groups under Beech.
Lactarius helvus	Lactarius helvus	A medium sized fungus, exuding milk from the gills, found growing solitary or in groups in soil with conifers, often at altitude.
Lactarius mairei	Lactarius mairei
Lactarius pterosporus	Lactarius pterosporus	A medium sized fawn coloured fungus whose gills exude milk and is found in broadleaf woodland with Oak, Hornbeam or Beechm
Lactarius quieticolor	Lactarius quieticolor	A rare species that is on the Red Data List. It is associated with coniferous trees and can be easily confused with L. deliciosus and L. deterrimus.
Lanzia echinophila	Lanzia echinophila	An ascomycete which grows on the fallen husks of sweet chestnut
Larch Bolete	Suillus grevillei	Common wherever Larch Trees grow, this edible specimen has a slimy orange, yellow-brown cap, pores and a stem with a ring.
Lasiosphaeria ovina	Lasiosphaeria ovina	Minute, spherical and white fungus with a dark apical poiny found growong in masses on rotting wood in general.
Lasiosphaeria spermoides	Lasiosphaeria spermoides
Layered cup	Peziza varia	Medium sized, pale brown cup.
Leaf parachute	Marasmius epiphyllus	A comon fungus that is often overlooked because of it's very small size. Often in large numbers in deciduous woodland growing from leaf litter.
Lemon Disco	Bisporella citrina	A very small, yellow saucer shaped fungus found densely clustered on the dead wood of deciduous trees.
Lentaria afflata	Lentaria afflata
Lentil Shanklet	Collybia tuberosa	Growing on decayed Lactarius
Lentinellus cochleatus	Lentinellus cochleatus	A smallish, funnel-shaped, brown fungus that is found in broadleaf woodlands growing on the stumps of trees.
Lentinus tigrinus	Lentinus tigrinus	Not as rare as people think - usually in wet places, usually on willow (frequently Salix fragilis) and even fruits on on logs floating in the water
Leopard Earthball	Scleroderma aerolatum	A yellowish hard, brown round fungus that is attached by thick rooting strands, found in small troops on bare soil, vegetation or moss in damp places.
Lepiota acutesquamosa	Lepiota acutesquamosa	Found growing alone or scattered, usually in deciduous leaf litter or close to woody debris; occasionally growing from well rotted wood from late summer till late...
Lepiota castanea	Lepiota castanea
Lepiota pseudolilacea	Lepiota pseudolilacea
Leucoagaricus nympharum	Leucoagaricus nympharum
Liberty cap	Psilocybe semilanceata
Lilac Bonnet	Mycena pura	A very variable species with a cap colour that can range from lilac, pink, grey, violet and even yellowish, commonly found in leaf litter.
Lilac Fibrecap	Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina	A small, sharply umbonate fungus with a lilac cap that is found growing either solitary or in trooping groups on soil in coniferous and deciduous woodlands.
Lilac Leg Fibrecap	Inocybe griseolilacina	A small lilac-brown or grey fungus with an umbonate cap that is found growing solitary or in trooping groups on soils alongside broadleaf trees.
Lilac Oysterling	Panus conchatus	test new
Limacella guttata	Limacella guttata	Found scattered or in groups in broadleaf woodland, usually under elm or ash or in swamps.
Lion Shield	Pluteus leoninus	An uncommon to rare species found in deciduos woodland growing on the wood of broadleaf trees.
Liver Milkcap	Lactarius hepaticus	Small to medium-sized agaric with dull reddish brown cap, buff gills and exuding white milk which turns yellow on handkerchief in two minutes.
Lumpy Bracket	Trametes gibbosa	A whitish, medium sized bracket that often appears with a greenish tinge due to algal growth on its upper surface. It is found in broadleaf woodland on dead wood, favouring Hornbeam, Oak and Ash...
Lurid Bolete	Boletus luridus	A large bolete found either solitary or in small groups on soil in grassleand or under deciduous trees, usually Oak or Beech.
Lycogala epidendrum	Lycogala epidendrum	Although many slime mould species fruit on wood, slime moulds do not form a penetrating and absorptive mass of hyphae in the wood substrate. Rather, slime moulds form...
Lycogala terrestre	Lycogala terrestre