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Warted Amanita |
Amanita strobiliformis |
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This is an often massive fungi that has a creamish white cap covered in thick fragments of veil, very often with veil fragments hanging off the cap edge. The gills are cowded, pale cream and... |
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Wavy Cap |
Psilocybe Cyanescens |
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Is often found on rotting woodchips and mulch, occasionally on their own but more often in tufts. When mature the cap has a distinct wavy appearance. Moist caps are a caramel brown colour but as they... |
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Waxy Crust |
Vuilleminia comedens |
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Weeping Bolete |
Suillus granulatus |
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Weeping Bolete |
Suillus granulatus |
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A medium sized fungus with a viscid cap, found in coniferous woodland either solitary or in small groups in Autumn. |
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Weeping Widow |
Lacrymaria lacrymabunda |
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A medium sized agaric with a yellowish-brown cap found amongst grass beside paths in woods and roadsides. |
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White Brain |
Exidia thuretiana |
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Easy to confuse with Exidia nucleata - Crystal Brain.
Spore size impotant. Both have allantoid (sausage) shaped spores, the spores for Exidia thuretiana are longer |
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White Dapperling |
Leucoagaricas leucothites |
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Medium-sized fungus that has a silky cap, white gillas and a stem with a ring, found either solitary or scattered in grassland, often in gardens and road or pathsides. |
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White Domecap |
Lyophyllum connatum |
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Medium-sized, pure white fleshy agaric. |
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White Fibrecap |
Inocybe geophylla |
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A small sharply umbonate fungus with a white cap found growing on soil in coniferous and deciduous woodland, often at the side of paths. |
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White Knight |
Tricholoma album |
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A large and fleshy fungus that is whitish throughout, found growing on soil in coniferous and broadleaf woodland in small trooping groups or solitary. |
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White Milking Bonnet |
Mycena galopus var. candida |
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A small, pure white fungus witha bell-shaped cap found growing solitary or in small troops in mixed woodland and beneath hedgerows. |
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White Saddle |
Helvella crispa |
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Helvella crispa is one of several 'saddle fungi' that appear in forest, particularly beside footpaths. They are easily overlooked among fallen leaves in dim light, but on bright days they are very... |
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White Spindles |
Clavaria fragilis |
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An upright, white, spindle shaped fungus found growing amongst grass in meadows and pastures. |
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Wild Dry-Rot |
Serpula himantioides |
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Photo on old conifer log at Sherwood Pines in Notts
Similar to Coniophora puteana but correct id confirmed by thin-walled spores sized 9-10.5x6u |
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Willow Bracket |
Phenillus igniarius |
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Willow Shield |
Pluteus salicinus |
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A grey Pluteus that grows on rotting logs. Mainly growing on dead Willow but is occasionally known to grow on dead Beech. |
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Winter Polypore |
Polyporus brumalis |
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Winter Stalkball |
Tulostoma brumale |
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A small,grey-brown fungus with a more or less round head on top of a brown, tough stem, found growing in groups on sandy soil and dunes. |
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Witches' Butter |
Exidia glandulosa |
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A blackish, disc shaped fungus that is gelatinous and is found in small or large groups on dead and rotting wood in broadleaf woodland, favouring Oak. |
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Wood Blewit |
Lepista nuda |
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A medium -sized and fleshy fungus with lilac gills growing in trooping groups on soil in mixed woodland, parks and gardens. |
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Wood Bolete |
Buchwaldoboletus lignicola |
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A rare Boletus that grows on Conifer substrates. This species exhibits a gelatinous cuticle and decurrent pores, both unusual features of the family it belongs to. With close examination of... |
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Wood Mushroom |
Agaricus silvicola |
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With a noticeable aniseed smell and a smooth cap that slowly colours ochre when bruised, Agaricus silvicola is quite easily distinguished from the other large mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. |
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Wood Pinkgill |
Entoloma rhodopolium |
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A small to medium-sized fungus with a grey-white cap and white stem found growing solitary or in small troops in broadleaf woods. |
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Wood Woollyfoot |
Collybia peronata |
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A common, small tough species with a yellow-brown cap that is radially streaked with dark-brown when young but becomes pale and wrinkled with age. The stem is tough and can be twisted without it... |
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Woolly Fibrecap |
Inocybe lanuginosa var. lanuginosa |
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A smallish dark-brown fungus with a shaggy cap and scaly stem found growing either solitary or in small troops on soil and rotting debris in mixed or coniferous woodland. |
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Woolly Milkcap |
Lactarius torminosus |
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This is a striking fungus with a woolly cap that is commonly found with Birch trees in woods and parkland. |
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Wrinkled Club |
Clavulina rugosa |
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This common and widespread fungus is usually simple, club-shaped and white to cream but occasionally develops antler-like branches |
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Wrinkled Crust |
Phelbia radiata |
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Wrinkled Peach |
Rhodotus palmatus |
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A medium sized, pale-pink fungus that has a wrinkled cap and is found in broadleaf woodland growing on the trunks, stumps and felled timber of Elm. |
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Wrinkled Webcap |
Cortinarius livido-ochraceus |
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