A to Z of British Fungi

A buff coloured fungus, often with a rosy tinge that exudes milk from the gills and is found in broadleaf wooodland with Beech.

Yellow fungus with gelatinous fruit bodies that grow, densely crowded on dead or rotting branches, stumps and twigs of broadleaf and coniferous...

While not poisonous, this fungi is psychoactive and contains the same chemicals as Muscaria and Gemmata, and it is the most potent of the three....

Both the cap and stem are a pale silvery lavender to almost white in colour. The cap is rounded with a broad umbo and the stem is club-shaped...

This small bolete is commonly found in coniferous woodland and also with Birch trees, sometimes growing near Amanita muscaria. The cap is...

An orange-yellow fungus with a greasy cap found growing in small troops on soil amongst shortish grass, often close to conifers.

A small and delicate fungus found either solitary or in small groups attached to partly-buried or buried Pine cones.

A smallish pinkish-lilac fungus with a greasy, conical ca, usually found growing solitary on soil in short or mown grassland.

Stem. White discolouring buff from the the base upwards. Flesh . smell none. Gills free, clay-pink then grey finally black, hardly deliquescing....

A small fungus found in deciduous woodland solitary or in small groups near rotting wood or other woody debris.

A rare species that is found on rotting wood from Summer until Autumn.

A medium sized Russula that has a grey-blue cap and grows either solitary or in scattered troops under broadleaf trees.

A medium to large Rusula, purplish red in the cap found growing in scattered groups or solitary in comiferous woodland, specifically with Pine.

A largish fungus that has a dark-purple coloured cap, cream gills and a white stem found growing on soil in broadleaf woodland, preferably with...

Cortinarius subgenus Myxacium. In this genus, both the cap and stem are sticky from the universal veil, which is easily observed in very...