Fungi
on and around the Malverns
© Pics by John Howes
We'd welcome any fungi identification info for these photos.
And please note we make no claims for accuracy where we have identified the
pics - don't use them as a picking guide! A new (to us) website Roger's
Mushrooms, based on the book Mushrooms and other
fungi of Great Britain and Europe, looks like the best online identification.
Or try First
Nature or the Wild
About Britain gallery.
Our main book reference is Collins Gem Mushrooms and Toadstools (link to Amazon.co.uk) - a useful pocket guide. Another book: Collins Wild Guide: Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe illustrated guide to 240 species.
We learn from the Herefordshire Festival of Fungi web site that the first known scientific meeting to study fungi was "a foray amongst the funguses" by the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club of Hereford, in 1868, in Holme Lacy deer park. Fungi Forays is also the name of two-day breaks based in the wonderful Elan Valley in mid-Wales, led by Daniel Butler - useful web site too.
 Fly agaric (poisonous) |
 end hill |
 end hill |
 end hill |
 west side |
 In bench crevice. Tufted Bell cap? |
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 (east?) |
 in the mist |
 puff |
 on its lonesome |
 Birch Polypore, Sept 03 |
 Another on same tree |
Young common puffball? mid-Wales, Oct 03 |
 Fly agaric with 'spots' washed off |
 Link Common - see '02 |
 Jews Ear - see '02 |
 Again. Nice textures! |
Yellow fingers |
 Aug 04 |
 Lawyer's WIg or Shaggy Inkcap |
 Oct '04 |
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 On road wsw of Colwall, '03 |
 Down from St Ann's |
 Oct 04 |
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 Parasol |
 Different specimen! |
 Puffball |
See another page of Fungi Pics, 2002 and 2006. Or flora & fauna.
Other Fungi (aka mycology) specialist web pages: Tom Volk's Fungi (from an American University professor); Uses of Scottish Fungi.
Please contact us if you wish to re-use any of these photos (copyright J Howes). Thanks.