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Dyer's Mazegill

An interesting looking mushroom that alas is inedible but has been used for dying materials for many years hence the common name....

Vermillion Waxcap

A small red Waxcap that is fairly easy to identify as it has a scurfy cap unlike most other Waxcaps which have smooth, greasy caps. Being fairly rare and small...

Black Morel

This popular mushroom is a choice edible but must be well cooked before consumption. The Black Morel is now very common in man-made habitats. The scientific name Morchella elata was...

Grey Spotted Amanita

This mushroom is not a safe mushroom for novice foragers as it can be difficult to distinguish it from the toxic Panthercap....

Jewelled Amanita

Poisonous, said to be deadly as with some other Amanita species. Uncommon....

The Blusher

Common and available before many other species are out, this is a good eating mushroom but difficult to identify for the novice forager and must be well cooked before consumption....

The Sickener

Poisonous but will only make you vomit. Common. The Russula family split from other mushrooms, evolutionarily, many years ago and have round cells instead of most other mushrooms which have...

Beechwood Sickener

A large family of mushrooms and a safe one for novice foragers in the UK and Europe, as the poisonous species will only cause vomiting, nothing more serious....

Fool's Funnel

There is now some controversy as to whether Clitocybe rivulosa and Clitocybe dealbata are close variants of the same species or separate species, with C. dealbata growing inland and C....

Bearded Milkcap

A fairly easy to identify family of mushrooms with lactating gills and flesh....