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King Alfred's cake - Daldinia concentrica
An inedible fungus that can be used to carry embers


Scarlet caterpillar club - Cordyceps militaris
An entomopathogenic fungus used as a functional mushroom


Giant funnel - Aspropaxillus giganteus
A very large ring-forming grassland mushroom


Guelder rose - Viburnum opulus
A glossy-berried hedgerow shrub


Cherry plum - Prunus cerasifera
Thought to be the ancestor of the cultivated plum


Wild carrot - Daucus carota
The wild ancestor of the cultivated carrot


Butcher's broom - Ruscus aculeatus
A relative of asparagus with spiky leaf-like structures


Destroying angel - Amanita virosa
A beautiful but deadly poisonous white mushroom


Deceiving bolete - Suillellus queletii
A blue-staining bolete that has a variable appearance


Iodine bolete - Hemileccinum impolitum
A mushroom that smells strongly of iodine


Yellow stainer - Agaricus xanthodermus
A poisonous member of the Agaricus genus


Wood mushroom - Agaricus silvicola
A member of the Agaricus genus found in woodland


Wood blewit - Lepista nuda
A woodland mushroom often found in colder weather


Winter chanterelle - Craterellus tubaeformis
A moss-loving late-season mushroom that appears in number


Weeping widow - Lacrymaria lacrymabunda
A mushroom that "cries" black tears


Weeping bolete - Suillus granulatus
Named due to the milky substance leaking from its pores


Trooping funnel - Infundibulicybe geotropa
A very tall mushroom found in troops or rings


The prince - Agaricus augustus
The most prized member of the Agaricus genus


Tawny grisette - Amanita fulva
A woodland mushroom with striations on its cap


Sulphur tuft - Hypholoma fasiculare
A commonly sighted poisonous mushroom


Suede bolete - Xerocomellus submentosus
One of the smaller boletes that is often misidentified


Stump puffball - Lycoperdon pyriforme
A puffball found on dead and decaying wood


Stinkhorn - Phallus impudicus
A foul smelling and phallically shaped fungus


Sordid blewit - Lepista sordida
A small purple and aromatic mushroom
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