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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| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| White Domecap | Lyophyllum connatum |
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Medium-sized, pure white fleshy agaric. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| White Spindles | Clavaria fragilis |
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An upright, white, spindle shaped fungus found growing amongst grass in meadows and pastures. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Wrinkled Webcap | Cortinarius livido-ochraceus |
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