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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              A distinctive lilac to purple mushroom.
              
              A blue green or greyish coloured mushroom with blue-white gills and stem.
              
              A jelly-like pale-pink or flesh-coloured, blob looking fungus.
              
              A large bracket fungus with a red or orange top and pale underside.
              
              A large, grey to brown bracket fungus with pale underside.
              
              A brown (from pale yellow to rich, red brown) capped mushroom.
              
              A fairly large, pale-coloured fungus that is said to resemble a cauliflower.
              
              A very large and brightly coloured lemon-yellow to orange fan shaped fungus.
              
              A funnel shaped, pink or buff to ochre coloured mushroom that sometimes forms fairy rings.
              
              A grey and brown-ish conical mushroom that was once used to make ink.
              
              Round-ish shaped dark brown to black fungus that looks like King Alfred’s burned cakes from the popular tale.
              
              A large, cream and brown coloured, scaly bracket fungus with tubes.
              
              A strange white crust that forms patches enveloping living plants.
              
              A distinctive, red and often white-spotted mushroom.
              
              A small bell-shaped (sometimes curved back and split) capped mushroom covered in glistening powder.
              
              An orange to tawny coloured mushroom with scaly stem and a few scales on top.
              
              A tiny mushroom that is a grey-ish, rounded cone shape but flattens then becomes concave with age.
              
              A strange fungi with pinkish to orange underside and white, hairy fibres.
              
              A bright and shiny mushroom with orange-brown cap when young, maturing to paler yellow.
              
              A mottled looking mushroom with an interesting stem.
              
              The Panther Cap mushroom is ochre-brown and often covered in white fragments of the veil.
              
              The Pestle Puffball grows upwards with a rounded top like a pestle and is pale coloured when young and matures to brown.
              
              A small bell-shaped mushroom becoming flat disc-shaped with age.
              
              An attractive wine red or plum coloured mushroom with yellow gills.
              
              A mainly white, porcelain type fungus has a slimey or shiney look.
              
              A purple mushroom with a pink-flushed stem.
              
              A purple mushroom with darker centre and white stem.
              
              A jelly-like purple blob looking fungus.
              
              A small, brick red coloured mushroom with gills.
              
              A small pale-orange cup with bright red interior surface.
              
              A scruffy looking, tan coloured mushroom with a matching colour stem.
              
              A shaggy looking white mushroom with buff at the centre.
              
              A very common mushroom with bright yellow to tan colour.
              
              A small mushroom with white stem and cherry or blood-red cap.
              
              A white or cream, bracket like oyster fungus that is often found on hardwood trees and rarely conifers.
              
              A tan to yellow coloured, slimy looking mushroom.
              
              A tiny red to orange mushroom with paler gills.
              
              A small white mushroom with a fibrous looking silky surface.
              
              A weird looking white to pale tan coloured fungi.
              
              A cream to pale-pink coloured fungi with interesting “toothed” underside.
              
              A golden yellow to orange, slimy looking Jelly Fungi that can be found growing on trees.
              
              A bright yellow to ochre yellow mushroom found in damp places around Birch trees.
            
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