Mushrooms and Fungi

Mushrooms and Fungi that can be found in the West Pennine Moors area - yes there are plenty.

— WARNING —

Don’t use this as a guide to what you can eat from the wild, I can’t guarantee the validity of my identifications.

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Mushrooms and Fungi

Aniseed Funnel

Aniseed Funnel

Clitocybe odora

A blue green or greyish coloured mushroom with blue-white gills and stem.

Read more about: Aniseed Funnel

Beech Jellydisc

Beech Jellydisc

Neobulgaria pura

A jelly-like pale-pink or flesh-coloured, blob looking fungus.

Read more about: Beech Jellydisc

Beefsteak Fungus

Beefsteak Fungus

Fistulina hepatica

A large bracket fungus with a red or orange top and pale underside.

Read more about: Beefsteak Fungus

Birch Polypore

Birch Polypore

Pitoporus betulinus

A large, grey to brown bracket fungus with pale underside.

Read more about: Birch Polypore

Blusher

Blusher

Amanita rubescens

A brown (from pale yellow to rich, red brown) capped mushroom.

Read more about: Blusher

Cauliflower Fungus

Cauliflower Fungus

Sparassis crispa

A fairly large, pale-coloured fungus that is said to resemble a cauliflower.

Read more about: Cauliflower Fungus

Chicken of the Woods or Sulphur Polypore

Chicken of the Woods or Sulphur Polypore

Laetiporus sulphureus

A very large and brightly coloured lemon-yellow to orange fan shaped fungus.

Read more about: Chicken of the Woods or Sulphur Polypore

Common Funnel

Common Funnel

Clitocybe gibba

A funnel shaped, pink or buff to ochre coloured mushroom that sometimes forms fairy rings.

Read more about: Common Funnel

Common Inkcap

Common Inkcap

Coprinus atramentarius

A grey and brown-ish conical mushroom that was once used to make ink.

Read more about: Common Inkcap

Cramp Balls or King Alfred's Cakes

Cramp Balls or King Alfred's Cakes

Daldina concentrica

Round-ish shaped dark brown to black fungus that looks like King Alfred’s burned cakes from the popular tale.

Read more about: Cramp Balls or King Alfred's Cakes

Dryad's Saddle

Dryad's Saddle

Polyporus squamosus

A large, cream and brown coloured, scaly bracket fungus with tubes.

Read more about: Dryad's Saddle

Enveloping Crust

Enveloping Crust

Sebcina incrustans

A strange white crust that forms patches enveloping living plants.

Read more about: Enveloping Crust

Fly Agaric

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

A distinctive, red and often white-spotted mushroom.

Read more about: Fly Agaric

Glistening Inkcap

Glistening Inkcap

Coprinus micaceus

A small bell-shaped (sometimes curved back and split) capped mushroom covered in glistening powder.

Read more about: Glistening Inkcap

Golden Scalycap

Golden Scalycap

Pholiota aurivella

An orange to tawny coloured mushroom with scaly stem and a few scales on top.

Read more about: Golden Scalycap

Haresfoot Inkcap

Haresfoot Inkcap

Coprinus lagopus

A tiny mushroom that is a grey-ish, rounded cone shape but flattens then becomes concave with age.

Read more about: Haresfoot Inkcap

Jelly Rot

Jelly Rot

Phlebia tremellosa

A strange fungi with pinkish to orange underside and white, hairy fibres.

Read more about: Jelly Rot

Larch Bolete

Larch Bolete

Suillus grevillei

A bright and shiny mushroom with orange-brown cap when young, maturing to paler yellow.

Read more about: Larch Bolete

Mottled Bolete

Mottled Bolete

Leccinum variicolor

A mottled looking mushroom with an interesting stem.

Read more about: Mottled Bolete

Panther Cap

Panther Cap

Amanita pantherina

The Panther Cap mushroom is ochre-brown and often covered in white fragments of the veil.

Read more about: Panther Cap

Pestle Puffball

Pestle Puffball

Handkea excipuliformis

The Pestle Puffball grows upwards with a rounded top like a pestle and is pale coloured when young and matures to brown.

Read more about: Pestle Puffball

Pleated Inkcap

Pleated Inkcap

Parasola plicatilis

A small bell-shaped mushroom becoming flat disc-shaped with age.

Read more about: Pleated Inkcap

Plums and Custard

Plums and Custard

Tricholomopsis rutilans

An attractive wine red or plum coloured mushroom with yellow gills.

Read more about: Plums and Custard

Porcelain Fungus

Porcelain Fungus

Oudemansiella mucida

A mainly white, porcelain type fungus has a slimey or shiney look.

Read more about: Porcelain Fungus

Purple Brittlegill

Purple Brittlegill

Russula atropurpurea

A purple mushroom with darker centre and white stem.

Read more about: Purple Brittlegill

Rufous Milkcap

Rufous Milkcap

Lactarius rufus

A small, brick red coloured mushroom with gills.

Read more about: Rufous Milkcap

Scarlet Elfcup

Scarlet Elfcup

Sarcoscypha austriaca

A small pale-orange cup with bright red interior surface.

Read more about: Scarlet Elfcup

Scurfy Twiglet

Scurfy Twiglet

Tubaria furfuracea

A scruffy looking, tan coloured mushroom with a matching colour stem.

Read more about: Scurfy Twiglet

Shaggy Inkcap

Shaggy Inkcap

Coprinus comatus

A shaggy looking white mushroom with buff at the centre.

Read more about: Shaggy Inkcap

Sulphur Tuft

Sulphur Tuft

Hypholoma fasiculare

A very common mushroom with bright yellow to tan colour.

Read more about: Sulphur Tuft

The Sickener

The Sickener

Rusula emetica

A small mushroom with white stem and cherry or blood-red cap.

Read more about: The Sickener

Veiled Oyster

Veiled Oyster

Pleurotus dryinus

A white or cream, bracket like oyster fungus that is often found on hardwood trees and rarely conifers.

Read more about: Veiled Oyster

Velvet Shank

Velvet Shank

Flammulina velutipes

A tan to yellow coloured, slimy looking mushroom.

Read more about: Velvet Shank

Vermilion Waxcap

Vermilion Waxcap

Hygrocybe miniata

A tiny red to orange mushroom with paler gills.

Read more about: Vermilion Waxcap

White Fibrecap

White Fibrecap

Inocybe geophylla

A small white mushroom with a fibrous looking silky surface.

Read more about: White Fibrecap

White Saddle

White Saddle

Helvella crispa

A weird looking white to pale tan coloured fungi.

Read more about: White Saddle

Wood Hedgehog

Wood Hedgehog

Hydnum repandum

A cream to pale-pink coloured fungi with interesting “toothed” underside.

Read more about: Wood Hedgehog

Yellow Brain

Yellow Brain

Tremella mesenterica

A golden yellow to orange, slimy looking Jelly Fungi that can be found growing on trees.

Read more about: Yellow Brain

Yellow Swamp Brittlegill

Yellow Swamp Brittlegill

Russula claraflava

A bright yellow to ochre yellow mushroom found in damp places around Birch trees.

Read more about: Yellow Swamp Brittlegill

Brett Gregory is an award-winning filmmaker based in Bolton whose production company, Serious Feather, is currently making a documentary about autism and poetry.

As a part of this production, Landscape Britain was asked to advise with regards to the location of specific areas of outstanding natural beauty throughout the region.

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