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Common lime - Tilia x Europaea
A pleasantly scented and common edible tree


Common hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium
A tasty wild green that should be treated with caution


Common beech - Fagus sylvatica
A tree with edible parts and important to many fungi


Chickweed - Stellaria media
A very common plant excellent in salads


Is eating your Christmas tree a bad idea?
Should you be scoffing your festive centrepiece?


Amethyst deceiver - Laccaria amethystina
A strikingly coloured autumn mushroom


Lilac fibrecap - Incocybe lilacina
A common deadly poisonous mushroom


Peppery bolete - Chalciporus piperatus
An edible but spicy bolete


Mottled bolete - Leccinum variicolor
An uncommon Leccinum species with some blue staining


Orange oak bolete - Leccinum aurantiacum
Despite its common name, this Leccinum associates with various trees


Orange birch bolete - Leccinum versipelle
The orange birch bolete is one of the tastier Leccinums


Summer bolete - Boletus reticulatus
A large summer mushroom that is a tasty edible


Spearmint - Mentha spicata
A strong smelling herb that is often cultivated


Wild strawberry - Fragaria vesca
A common and easy to identify relative of cultivated strawberries


Meadowsweet, apple and spearmint sorbet with cinnamon apple crisps
A refreshing pairing of meadowsweet and apple


Panther cap - Amanita pantherina
One of the poisonous members of the Amanita genus


Monkshood - Aconitum napellus
A plant that is deadly poisonous, even through touch


Balsam bashing
How do UK laws affect the picking of this invasive edible


Juneberry - Amelanchier spp
A naturalised tree with sweet, edible berries


Few-flowered garlic - Allium paradoxum
An invasive member of the onion family


Chanterelle - Cantharellus cibarius
A well-known and highly sought after edible mushroom


Fiendish fungi
Spooky mushrooms for Halloween


The phoenix of flora: rosebay willowherb
One of the most striking plants of summer, rosebay Willowherb is a vigorous pioneer plant with plenty to offer the forager in the warmer mon


Wild celery - Apium graveolens
The wild progenitor of cultivated variants
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