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Deceiver – Laccaria laccata

Deceiver – Laccaria laccata

A small mushroom, pale-red to brown in colour and around 2 to 10cm tall. Said to be the most common toadstool type mushroom in the the British Isles. Known as the Deceiver due to its highly variable range of size and colour which may in fact be due to several, similar...

Grisette – Amanita vaginata

Grisette – Amanita vaginata

A trooping mushroom 10 to 18cm tall mushroom with a white stem and pale-grey cap - usually 5 to 10cm. Remnants of the volva or pod from which the mushroom emerges remain around the base of the stem. Found in broad-leaved woodland often with beech and oak trees....

Angel’s Bonnet – Mycena arcangeliana

Angel’s Bonnet – Mycena arcangeliana

Small delicate mushrooms in clusters on dead wood and tree stumps with a brown-ish stem and paler bell-shaped cap that can flatten out with age and white gills that tend to darken. According to Buczackie they taste "mild, indefinite or radish-like".

Jelly Baby – Leotia lubrica

Jelly Baby – Leotia lubrica

Jelly Baby is a rubbery fungi. It starts out with a round, smooth, shiny cap that develops into curvy margins. They are often yellow, orangey-yellow or greenish-brown in colour. The stems are sometimes a little flattened with a flaky or scaly surface, with soft...