Mushroom Identification Guide

A beautiful purple-coloured edible mushroom

Looks so much like beef it even "bleeds"

An edible member of the Amanita family

Growing with Birch trees, this is a common mushroom

A highly-sought after edible mushroom

This poisonous mushroom is a common woodland find

The range of shapes of this mushroom gives it is name

One of the edible orange milk Lacatarius found with Spruce

This poisonous mushroom has an infamous appearance

A many-layered bracket fungus most often on Beech

Can be found from summer through to winter

Found at the base of Oak trees and also called Maitake

A good edible mushroom but very difficult to spot

A deadly poisonous purple mushroom

A distinctive and uncommon  Agaricus family member

A common fairy ring causing mushroom of grassland

A summer fruiting oyster mushroom 

One of the most highly-prized edible mushrooms

Has an extremely slimy cap and grows on dead Beech

A poisonous members of the Russula family

An edible mushroom that stains red when damaged

An edible bolete that has red pores and stains blue when cut

This mushroom requires advanced identification

This mushroom is often confused for the Wood Blewit

A puffball found on dead and decaying wood

A woodland mushroom with striations on its cap

A very tall mushroom found in troops and rings

A saprobic mushroom that "cries" black tears

Found all year round most often on elder 

The strong smell of aniseed gives this mushroom its name

An inedible mushroom but with many other uses

A edible red-staining member of the Agaricus family

A commonly found deadly poisonous mushroom

This edible mushroom is easy to spot because of its colour

Covered in sharp warts, this is a woodland puffball

A large bracket fungus that grows on broadleaf trees

A grassland mushroom with a beautiful purple stem

A deadly poisonous mushroom growing in rings

A huge mushroom that is easy to identify

An edible mushroom but not one for novices

Appearing at the start of the colder months

Often found in grassland and sometimes near trees

One of the grassland loving puffballs

One of the larger members of the puffball family 

One of the tastier Leccinum mushrooms

A poisonous member of the Amanita genus

An edible bolete that tastes like cracked black pepper

An often misidentified common bolete

This orange mushroom is considered an excellent edible

A brightly coloured mushroom that is goblet-shaped

A distinctive mushroom that disappears quickly

A bolete with an extremely slimy cap surface

Often found in parkland during springtime

A commonly sighted poisonous mushroom

A diminutive and red-orange hedgehog mushroom

A mushroom that can be found in the depths of winter

A moss loving late season mushroom

A member of the Agaricus family food in woodland

A sought after bolete that often fruits in good numbers

A commonly found bolete but not the best tasting

A funnel-shaped mushroom found on dead broadleaf trees

A distinctive mushroom with many folds of ragged flesh

Considered edible by some but poisonous by others

A notorious deadly poisonous mushroom

Inedible and a lookalike of deadly poisonous relatives

Found in pastureland, often in great numbers

Found growing in tight clumps on disturbed ground

A common sight on rotting wood and tree stumps

A firm-fleshed mushroom with spines instead of gills

A common parasitic mushroom the is edible with caution

A commonly found bolete that grows with Larch

A meadow mushroom that prefers colder weather

A less frequently found Leccinum species

An uncommon but often abundant find

A large and easy to spot mushroom 

One of the more strangely shaped puffballs

A pale-coloured poisonous bolete that bruises blue 

Found on grassland near the coast and gritted roadsides

Although edible, collection for eating is discouraged

This large mushroom is edible with caution

One of the more commonly seen Waxcaps

A foul smelling mushroom that grows from an "egg"

A large and tasty edible mushroom

The most prized member of the Agaricus family

Named due to the milky droplets leaking from its pores 

A woodland mushroom often found in colder weather

A  poisonous member of the Agaricus family