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St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 12 September 2008 (Late afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Close-up		Notes Month: September Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Twigs Comments: Thinks this a Thelephora species

 

Sedgewick Lane, Horsham, West Sussex - 23 August 2008 (Late afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Top of cap		Notes Month: August Diameter: 7cm Height: 15cm Terrain: Pinewoods Substrate: Soil/Pine Needles Comments: This is some sort of parasol, not sure whether Macrolepiota or Lepiota as I haven't been able to identify it. There was no reddening when cut. There is a picture of an immature specimen which had an almost granular cap surface.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills and ring
Larger Picture Picture Type: Base of stipe
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view This is the immature specimen before the cap spread causing a breakup of the surface which produces the familiar scales of parasols.

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 21 August 2008 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: August Diameter: 5cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Soil Comments: Puzzled by this one. The sticky cap and violet stipe should give me clues but can't figure it out. Probably some sort of cortinarius, reminds me of gomphus genus but really no idea.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Stipe
Larger Picture Picture Type: From below

 

South Downs, , West Sussex - 13 August 2008 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Close-up		Notes Month: August Diameter: 1-3cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Soil Comments: These had an amazing smell which was hard to put your finger on. Almost spicy.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section close-up

 

Kuoni Woods, Dorking, Surrey - 10 August 2008 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: August Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Wood/Twigs Tree type: Unknown Comments: No idea, pretty fungus though.

 

Kuoni Woods, Dorking, Surrey - 10 August 2008 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: August Diameter: 3cm Height: 2cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Wood Tree type: Unknown Comments:
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

Kuoni Woods, Dorking, Surrey - 10 August 2008 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Front view		Notes Month: August Diameter: 3cm Height: 2cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Wood Tree type: Unknown Comments: Cup fungus, not sure which as new to this species.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 02 August 2008 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up		Notes Month: August Diameter: 0.5-1cm Height: 4-6cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Marasmius species, probably M. Androsaceus but I need more experience with this Genus.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up
Larger Picture Picture Type: From below

 

South Downs, , West Sussex - 01 August 2008 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Fruitbody		Notes Month: August Diameter: 3cm Terrain: Beech woodland Substrate: Soil Comments: These are some sort of truffle found by my friends Melissa and Ian. It may be rare or unheard of here in the UK so it is being investigated and I will report the results here.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Fruitbody & section
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section
Larger Picture Picture Type: Fruitbody & section

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 05 September 2006 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Top view		Notes Month: September Diameter: 2-5cm Height: 2-4cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Soil Comments: Russula species Orangey brown cap with cream gills and white stipe. Gills fairly brittle and no noticeable smell. Striated and slightly peeling cap margin. Flesh white, no discolouration or taste
Larger Picture Picture Type: From below

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 29 August 2006 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Close-up		Notes Month: August Diameter: 8cm Height: 4cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Soil Comments: A Russula, I think it may be R. Lepida due to the flushed stem and gills which are red tinged at the margin. New to this species though so any help welcome.

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 10 August 2006 (Late afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Front view		Notes Month: August Across: 8cm Width: 4cm Depth: 2cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Wood Comments: Didn't recognise this fungus, was quite hard with a black interior.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section

 

Denne Hill, Horsham, West Sussex - 11 November 2005 (Morning)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up		Notes Month: November Diameter: 3 - 7cm Height: 3 - 5cm Terrain: Cow pasture Substrate: Grass Comments: There were lots of this species on the hill, I think its an Entoloma. The gills were pinkish, the stem fibrillose with a bell shaped cap expanding flat with a distinct umbo.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills and stem
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up

 

Denne Hill, Horsham, West Sussex - 30 October 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 4cm Height: 3cm Terrain: Edge of path Substrate: Soil Comments: I found this solitary specimen growing at the edge of a path on the edge of a cricket ground. I first thought I was Cortinarius Violaceus but now suggestions have come in that it is a wood blewitt.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills

 

Denne Hill, Horsham, West Sussex - 21 October 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills and stem ring		Notes Month: October Diameter: 3-8cm Height: 10-15cm Terrain: Cow pasture Substrate: Grass Comments: These were growing in a tight cluster with fused stipes at the base.Gills were white with a slight pink tinge. Slightly decurrent and crowded. Stipe was very long more or less equal with a ring which was absent on some. Light tan near the apex darkening to dark brown at the base.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section
Larger Picture Picture Type: Stipe
Larger Picture Picture Type: Base of stipe
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

Denne Hill, Horsham, West Sussex - 21 October 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 5cm Height: 15cm Terrain: Cow pasture Substrate: Grass Comments: I don’t recognise this one at all. Gills were greyish white with brown patches, forked, crowded and adnexed. No noticeable smell and it had a rooting stipe going about 3cm deep with no ring.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

Bookham Commons, Bookham, Surrey - 20 October 2005 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 3cm Height: 5cm Terrain: Woodland path Substrate: Grass Comments: Mycena of some sort, greyish gills and no noticeable smell.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills

 

Bookham Commons, Bookham, Surrey - 20 October 2005 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up		Notes Month: October Diameter: 4-7cm Height: 4-5cm Terrain: Woodland path Substrate: Grass Comments: Armillaria maybe, slightly scaly cap, no ring, several of them growing amongst grass.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

North Downs, Dorking, Surrey - 14 October 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 3-4cm Height: 8-10cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Leaf litter Comments: Collybia I think, probably Dryophilla. Extremely deformed specimen with extra inversed cap growing out of the main cap. Stipe was quite woolly near the base, smell was mushroomy and gills were cream coloured and free.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up

 

Denne Hill, Horsham, West Sussex - 16 September 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Diameter: 6cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Deciduous Woodland Substrate: Soil Comments: Agaricus Species. Possibly Haemorrhoidarius. 3 Specimens growing together under an oak tree. The flesh reddened when cut, taste and smell mushroomy. Very shaggy cap and stout stem as you can see.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view
Larger Picture Picture Type: Gills

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 13 September 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: September Across: 12cm Width: 7cm Depth: 0.5cm Terrain: Deciduous woodland Substrate: Wood Tree type: Birch Comments: Not sure about these, when I first saw them they looked just like Pleurotus Pulmonarius but then I saw the pores below. Very spongy and damp and a strong spicy mushroomy smell. Spore print whitish.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Cap close-up
Larger Picture Picture Type: Pores
Larger Picture Picture Type: Top view

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 13 September 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Top view		Notes Month: September Diameter: 5cm Width: 3cm Depth: 3cm Terrain: Deciduous woodland Substrate: Wood Tree type: Oak Comments: These look like miniature versions of Fomes Fomentarius but they were growing on oak and had a white underside.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

Katmai National Park, Brooks Lodge, Alaska - 30 August 2005 (Midday)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: August Diameter: 6cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Edge of lake Substrate: Wood Comments: This is a Pholiota, I think either Aurivella or Adiposa.

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 16 August 2005 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Close-up		Notes Month: August Across: 12cm Width: 8cm Depth: 4cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Wood Tree type: Beech Comments: Not sure at all about this one.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Close-up

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 18 October 2004 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 4cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Wood Tree type: Oak Comments: Possibly an Armillaria?
Larger Picture Picture Type: Section showing gills

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 29 August 2004 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: August Diameter: 4cm Height: 5cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Grass at edge of path Comments: Lactarius species
Larger Picture Picture Type: Top view
Larger Picture Picture Type: From below

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 21 May 2004 (Mid afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view Note the cocoa spore deposits below it		Notes Month: May Across: 12cm Width: 6cm Depth: 8cm Terrain: Beechwoods Substrate: Wood Tree type: Beech Comments: Ganoderma species.

 

St Leonards Forest, Horsham, West Sussex - 06 December 2003 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: December Across: 15cm Terrain: Pinewoods Substrate: Wood Tree type: Pine or spruce Comments: The suggestion for this species is Postia Ptychogaster (Oligoporus Ptychogaster). Thanks to Tony Wright in Ontario, Canada. I am waiting for further verification in the form of another specimen to fully confirm.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Front view

 

Colgate Woods, Colgate, West Sussex - 12 October 2003 (Late afternoon)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view		Notes Month: October Diameter: 6cm Height: 8cm Terrain: Pinewoods Substrate: Pine needles Comments: Think this may be a Lepiota…
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view

 

Colgate Woods, Colgate, West Sussex - 12 October 2003 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view The top one has created a spore print on the lower one. Spore powder looks brownish		Notes Month: October Diameter: 6cm Height: 6cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Mud by pond Comments: No idea

 

Tilgate Forest, Pease Pottage, West Sussex - 08 October 2003 (Early evening)
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view - wet		Notes Month: October Diameter: 2cm Height: 6cm Terrain: Mixed woodland Substrate: Wood Comments: Mycena of some sort. Wet and dry versions.
Larger Picture Picture Type: Side view - dry