A bright-orange fungus that can look like discarded orange peel. Easy to spot from late-Summer to Autumn - said to be edible but there are similar (not bright-orange) fungi that are poisonous.
Penny Bun or Cep – Boletus Edulis
A very common mushroom used for cooking but of highly variable for and often confused wiith other species. Often large with size ranging from 3 to 20cm or more.
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
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
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".
Common Stump Brittlestem – Psathyrella piluliformis
A mushroom usually found in dense clusters on dead wood. The cap and stem are often buff brown, growing paler later while the gills change to dark brown. 4 to 10cm tall with 2 to 4cm cap that starts bell-shaped and flattens out with age.
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...