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Scientific Name | Primary Image | Description |
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| Macro Mushroom | Agaricus urinascens |
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A large, often massive mushroom found in soil among grass from early Summer until early Autumn. |
| Macrolepiota rhacodes var bohemica | Macrolepiota rhacodes var bohemica |
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A large fungus with a shaggy brown cap on a white background found solitary or in scattered groups in gardens, parks and compost heaps. |
| Magpie Cap | Coprinopsis picacea |
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Tall dark grey-brown agaric with conspicuous white scaly patches. Cap: Ovoid or cylindrical becoming convex then broadly campanulate, margin... |
| Many zoned Polypore | Coriolus versicolor |
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| Marasmius curreyi | Marasmius curreyi |
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This tiny fungus is recognized by a orange-brown, pinkish-brown to buff, sulcate-striate, often umbilicate cap, and... |
| Marasmius limosus | Marasmius limosus |
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| Matt Bolete | Boletus pruinatus |
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Medium to large bolete with chestnut-brown cap displaying distinctive whitish bloom, yellow pores and reddish tinged stem. |
| Matt Knight | Tricholoma imbricatum |
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A large, fleshy fungus that is dark reddish brown found on sandy soil in scattered or small tropps in coniferous woodland with Pine. |
| Meadow Coral | Clavulinopsis corniculata |
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This is a coral-like species that has a variable appearance, depending on local conditions, especially grass length. It can be short and tightly... |
| Meadow Puffball | Vascellum pratense |
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| Meadow Waxcap | Hygrocybe pratensis var. pratensis |
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A medium-sized fungus with a tawny-orange cap that has a waxy feel, found growing in fairly widespread troopd on soil among short grass in... |
| Mealy Funnel | Clitocybe vibecina |
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A small fungus with a pale greyish-brown cap that is found growing in soil in mixed or coniferous woodland, usually with bracken. |
| Mealy Pinkgil | Entoloma prunuloides |
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Please note that this sp. is usually brownish-grey on the cap but whitish forms are not uncommon, this one is more pure white than usual. |
| Megacollybia platyphylla | Megacollybia platyphylla |
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A medium to large fungus found in coniferous and deciduous woodland on rotting stumps or attached to buried wood by mycelial cords. |
| Melampsorella caryophyllacearum | Melampsorella caryophyllacearum |
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The earlier stages (O and I) occur on firs, Abies species, where it can form sizeable 'witches' brooms'), the fungus can continue on both groups of... |
| Melanoleuca grammopodia | Melanoleuca grammopodia | ||
| Melanoleuca melaleuca | Melanoleuca melaleuca |
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Medium to large fungus that has a dark-brown cap, found groing either solitary or scattered on soil in open broadleaf woodland or in grass near... |
| Melanoleuca turrita | Melanoleuca turrita |
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This rare to occasional fungus has a variable cap colour and can be either brown, black or... |
| Melanoleuca verrucipes | Melanoleuca verrucipes |
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| Melastiza cornubiensis | Melastiza cornubiensis |
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| Melogramma bulliardii | Melogramma bulliardii |
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| Microbotryum marginalis | Microbotryum marginalis |
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A fungus parasitic on Persicaria bistorta (bistort); it characteristically occurs along the edges of infected leaves. Listed in the Fungal Records... |
| Mild Milkcap | Lactarius subdulcis |
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A smallish agaric that is found growing on soil in small groups with broadleaf trees, especially Beech |
| Milk White Russula | Russula delica |
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A medium sized fungus that has a whitish cap, whitish, brittle gills and a white stem growing solitary or in groups on soil under coniferous and... |
| Mollisia cinerea | Mollisia cinerea |
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| Morel | Morchella esculenta |
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Morchella esculenta, the Common Morel, fruits from March to May and is a popular edible fungus. There is a danger of confusing morels with the deadly... |
| Mosaic Puffball | Handkea utriformis |
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6-12cms across, squat and pear-shaped when mature, tapering towards the base. White to pale grey-grown, finally a darker brown. Outer wall of scurfy... |
| Mottled Bolete | Leccinum variicolor |
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An infrequent fungi that is grey to dark-brown in the cap with a whitish stem and greyish mottled scales found growing with Birch... |
| Mouse-pee Pinkgill | Entoloma incanum |
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A small fungus with a yellow-brown cap found growing alone or in small groups on exposed grassland. |
| Mucilago crustacea | Mucilago crustacea |
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| Mycena abramsii | Mycena abramsii |
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A small conical fungus found growing on rotting stumps in small trooping groups in broadleaf woodland, preffering Beech. |
| Mycena aciculata | Mycena aciculata |
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Small grey Mycena with long hairs on the cap. |
| Mycena alcalina (Excluded name) | Mycena alcalina (EXCLUDED NAME in Checklist) |
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| Mycena amicta | Mycena amicta |
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Small grey/brown Mycena which can sometimes have a blue colouring to the cap and usually has a blue base to the pubescent stipe.... |
| Mycena arcangeliana | Mycena arcangeliana |
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has an iodoform / bleach-like smell Only grows on hardwood similar species on conifer see M. stipata |
| Mycena bulbosa | Mycena bulbosa |
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This small fungus is easily identified by the growth on herbaceous stalks in wetland areas and the stem springing... |
| Mycena purpureofusca | Mycena purpureofusca |
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Gill edge purple-brown. Stipe base hairy.No smell. Cystidia variable with characteristic lilac contents (seen in inset) |
| Mycoacia aurea | Mycoacia aurea |
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| Mycoacia uda | Mycoacia uda |
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