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Produces both grey-brown gilled mushrooms and irregular white compact forms with pink-brown patches. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow slimy cap with reddish fibres, yellow pores bearing droplets and a slender ringless stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

All-white amanita with free white gills, a ring and a sack-like volva at the stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White strongly branched mass with long hanging teeth grouped in tufts. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Upright pale branching fruit bodies with tiny crown-like cups at the branch tips. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pale cap, yellow pores, red on the stem and an intensely bitter taste. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Sulphur-yellow cap, greenish gills and bitter taste; no ring. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Leathery zoned brackets with conspicuous grey gill-like folds underneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-brown gills, brown cap and yellowish flesh in the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pale fan-shaped cap with decurrent gills and a short lateral stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A pale, fleshy mushroom with soft, light-coloured spines beneath the cap.

Dry pale-brown cap that may crack, with clear reticulation on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Red pores, strong blue staining and a dotted stem without reticulation. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Large cream-yellow cluster made of many flat, frilled lobes. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dense rosettes of dark blue-violet to black wavy fans with a wrinkled underside. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Violet cap, gills and stem that fade with age, with a distinct aromatic smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Fan-shaped grey cap, decurrent gills and lateral attachment. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown cap with pale patches, a ring and rings of warts around the stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A brown bolete with an off-white to grey pore layer and a pale stem with brown-black scales.

Matt orange-brown cap, rusty-brown gills and yellow-brown stem without a clear ring. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Robust white agaric with a double ring and gills turning pink then brown. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Black, charcoal-like sterile growth on the trunk rather than a typical cap-forming fruit body. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small red-brown milkcap with watery latex and a curry-like smell when drying. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey slimy cap, thick pale gills and a distinct almond-like smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Free gills that turn from pink to dark brown and a ring on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thick corky grey-brown bracket with coarse maze-like pores beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Waxy yellow-orange cap and thick, strongly decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hard dark hoof- to shelf-shaped conk with a brown pore surface and layered tubes. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

An orange, thin-fleshed gilled mushroom often confused with golden chanterelle.

Olive yellow-brown cap above blood-red young gills and a yellow-brown stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large velvety yellow-brown rosette; pores yellow then brown and darken when bruised. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Funnel-shaped yellow-brown polypore with a felted cap, central stem and small pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Fleshy violet-brown fans in dense clusters with a wrinkled decurrent underside. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow woolly cap; white latex turns violet where it meets the flesh. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thin overlapping brackets with a hairy grey cap and violet pore surface becoming toothed. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large hard grey-brown shelf; the white pore surface beneath stains permanently brown when scratched. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small brown hygrophan cap, ring zone and rusty gills; a dangerous sheathed-woodtuft lookalike. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large brown cap with an inrolled margin and a dark densely velvety lateral stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dry velvety brown cap and yellow pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Several cream-yellow to orange-brown caps often fuse together; pores beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Slimy olive-brown cap, yellow tones and thick decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small pale-brown cap on a thin stem arising from a buried pine cone. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Orange zoned cap, orange latex and green staining after damage. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Large brown cap with coarse dark scales and teeth underneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hard irregular dark bracket with a rusty-brown pore surface and often moss or algae above. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A pale to grey-brown polypore with an irregular cap and a short, sturdy stem.

Mature pores turn pink and the pale stem has coarse dark reticulation. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Large pale grey-beige cap, yellowish young gills turning pink, and a stout stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Rapid chrome-yellow staining at the stem base and often an inky or phenolic smell when heated. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Egg-yellow funnel with an almost smooth to weakly wrinkled underside and no true gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Robust club with a flattened or depressed top and yellow-brown colours. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small brown cap on a thin tough stem growing directly from a spruce cone. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Orange zoned cap, orange latex and rapid green staining; usually with spruce. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Large brown cap with overlapping scales and grey-brown teeth underneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Blue-green to grey-green funnel with a strong aniseed smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A deadly poisonous amanita with a greenish to yellow-olive cap, white gills, a ring and a volva.

Green to grey-green cap, brittle white gills and a white stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey bell-shaped caps in clusters; gills turn black and dissolve into ink. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-brown cap with grey patches, striate ring and a bulbous base without a sack-like volva. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small grey finely fibrillose cap with grey gills and a pale brittle stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey radially streaked cap, white gills with yellow tones and a mealy smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pale yellow-green cap with veil patches, a clear ring and rounded bulb with a distinct rim. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thin funnel, orange-yellow hollow stem and a nearly smooth underside. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Low mustard- to rusty-brown bracket with a velvety cap and small brown pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Orange-red cap and flesh that greys distinctly after damage or with age. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Soft young bracket with a velvety brown cap, white margin and droplets on a pale pore surface. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large pale funnel with a central boss and strongly decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Glossy red-brown to orange lacquered bracket with a pale margin and white pore surface. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Honey-yellow finely scaled cap, ring and black root-like cords in the wood. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hollow stem, dry to slightly scaly cap and large angular pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

The host mushroom is covered by a hard bright orange-red crust that distorts gills and cap. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A white, deadly poisonous amanita with white gills, a ring and a distinct volva at the stem base.

Large white funnel with very crowded gills and abundant acrid white latex. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large orange to salmon fans in a rosette with a white pore surface beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Orange-red pores, reticulation on the stem and marked blue staining. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Deep indigo-blue zoned cap and gills; blue latex turns greenish on exposure. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Blue-green slimy cap with pale veil remnants and purple-brown gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Translucent greyish jelly fungus with small teeth underneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Red-orange striate cap, yellow stem with orange fibres, a ring and a white sack-like volva. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown ear-shaped gelatinous fruit body with a finely hairy outer surface. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dark grey-brown goblet cap, decurrent gills and a fibrous stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

White to grey coral fungus with flattened, comb-like divided branch tips. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A fleshy, egg-yellow, often funnel-shaped mushroom that forms mycorrhiza with trees.

Very large round stemless fruit body with a uniformly white interior when young. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Broad waxy white to grey-pink crust with a fringed margin and no distinct cap. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Very large pale funnel with crowded decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Honey-brown scaly cap, ring and often swollen stem base; white spore print. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-brown funnel with decurrent gills and a distinctly swollen club-shaped stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small grey hairy fans with gills conspicuously split lengthwise. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Kidney-shaped pale bracket with a smooth cap and white pore surface browning with age. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hard hoof-shaped conk with grey concentric zones and a brown pore surface below. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large grey-white sticky cap, free pink gills and a clear volva without a ring. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large brown-scaled cap, hanging ring and almond-like smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A large rosette of many grey-brown tongue-shaped caps with white pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White, strongly branched coral-like fruit body with many short hanging spines. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large white funnel-shaped russula with a short stout stem and crowded pale gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White to brown-scaled cap, sturdy stem with a ring zone and a strong spicy smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Glossy red-brown lacquered upper surface, pale pores and often a lateral stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pink-brown dry cap, watery latex and a strong fenugreek-like smell when dry. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Small orange-brown mushroom with thick distant gills and a highly variable cap. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow to orange-brown often slimy cap and a ring on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Grey-beige cap above a distinctly violet stem; gills are pale. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small slender unbranched yellow-brown clubs, often growing densely together. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small whitish funnel with pale concentric zones and crowded gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Red to wine-red cap densely covered in coarse pale scales, yellow pores and a partial veil. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Red-brown cap, abundant white latex that browns, and a distinct fish-like smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White elongated shaggy cap that quickly dissolves into black liquid. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thin white crust or small brackets with irregular tooth-like pores beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-white cap, decurrent gills that turn pink, and a strong mealy smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Bright yellow cap, mild taste and flesh or gills that grey with age. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Brown scaly cap, robust ring with dark scales beneath and white spore print. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dark saddle-shaped cap and a grey deeply ribbed hollow stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-brown slimy cap and pale stem with dark granules or dots near the top. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pale-brown resilient cap, distant gills and a thin very tough stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hard hoof-shaped conk with a grey-black older zone, red-brown belt and pale growing margin. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large cream brackets in dense tiers with long hanging teeth beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pink-brown cap that often pulls back from the margin, exposing the gill ends. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

A red tongue-shaped fleshy bracket with separate tubes and pale juice in young flesh. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Bright orange cup-shaped fruit body without a stem, resembling orange peel. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Hard hoof-shaped grey-black conk with a rusty-brown pore surface and clear growth zones. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Orange to red-brown cap and pale scabers that darken. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Orange-brown cap, pale pores and a pale stem with dark scabers; flesh darkens when cut. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White to pale tan fan-shaped cap, short lateral stem and white decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown cap with white patches, striate margin, ring and a sharply rimmed bulb. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small bolete with rust-coloured pores and a distinctly peppery taste. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

A white compact mass of long hanging spines without a distinct cap. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown inrolled cap margin and decurrent gills that stain strongly brown when pressed. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large grey cap, crowded decurrent gills and a strong distinctive smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Pear-shaped brownish puffball with fine spines and root-like mycelial cords. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-brown cap and stem densely covered with coarse upright dark scales. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-green cap with brownish scales, yellow gills and yellow stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-brown wrinkled cap with a pale bloom, a ring and rusty-brown mature gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

No ring; young specimens may show milky droplets at the pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Rounded honeycomb cap with pale ridges; cap and stem are hollow. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

The cap often cracks into a network that reveals reddish colour below. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

A poisonous amanita with a red to orange-red cap, often with pale veil patches.

Purple-red scaly cap above bright yellow gills and a yellow stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Red-brown cap and often a stout stem with pale reticulation. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Smaller and more terracotta-coloured than wood hedgehog, with pale brittle teeth underneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Bright red cap, white brittle gills and a very acrid taste. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Damaged flesh develops red-brown stains; grey-pink patches occur on the cap and a ring on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large scaled cap, robust ring and flesh that turns orange-red when cut. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A large bolete with an orange to reddish-brown cap and a pale stem covered in small black scales.

Irregular brain-like red-brown cap rather than an orderly honeycomb. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Dry finely felted yellow-brown cap and small pores that may bruise faintly blue. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Very pale cap, stout stem and red pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Yellow-brown cap, large angular pores and resilient flesh; often in groups. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Orange-brown scaly fan with very large hexagonal pores and a lateral stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thin leathery fans with concentric multicoloured zones and tiny white pores beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small bright pink- to cinnabar-red funnel with blunt decurrent ridges beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Bright cinnabar-red to orange bracket with similarly coloured pores. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Bright scarlet cup with a pale outer surface on buried or fallen wood. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Large waxcap with a scarlet cap, waxy gills and a yellow-red stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Ochre-yellow cap, white brittle stem and distinctly sharp flesh. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Pink zoned cap with a woolly inrolled margin and white acrid latex. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large fan-shaped cap with dark scales and coarse angular pores beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large orange scaly vase with a wrinkled yellowish underside running down the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown cap, free gills that turn pink, and no ring or volva. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Slender black-brown club with a yellowish stem base, often attached to an underground host fungus. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-brown very slimy cap, grey gills and a yellow stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Very slimy cap in wet weather and a clear ring on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Pale funnel cap with true crowded gills descending the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Sooty grey to brown cap, white decurrent waxy gills and a pale stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pointed to umbonate red-brown cap, yellowish veil bands and rusty-brown mature gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Conical to umbonate straw-coloured cap splitting radially, with browning gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Conical honeycomb cap attached along the stem; the entire fruit body is hollow. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

A large bolete with a brown cap, pale to brownish stem and a sponge-like pore layer beneath the cap.

Tall pestle-shaped puffball with a long sterile base; the interior is white only when young. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Violet to grey-violet cap and stem, rusty-brown gills and a penetrating unpleasant odour. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large round puffball without a distinct stem; becoming dark brown and detached when mature. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large unbranched club, yellow-brown to ochre, with a rounded top. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Very large scaled cap, movable double ring and a snakeskin-patterned stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Fleshy pink-brown cap, inrolled margin and pink decurrent gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large red to orange-red cap, white gills and mild taste. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Two-toned hygrophan cap, ring and small scales below the ring zone. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Thin dark hollow trumpet with an almost smooth outer surface. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Chestnut-brown cap; yellow pores may bruise blue. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Many broad grey-brown fans from a common base; white pores blacken rapidly when bruised. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pointed yellow-orange to red cap; all parts blacken when handled or with age. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-brown cap, grey-violet ring and a rimmed bulb at the stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dark olive-brown funnel with a felted inrolled margin and white latex. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Dark mottled cap, scabered stem and often blue-green tones at the base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat.

Thin grey-brown brackets with a grey to nearly black pore surface and pale growing edge. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large soft lemon-yellow to orange brackets with pores beneath; fading markedly with age. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Sulphur-yellow throughout, with thick gills and a strong gas-like or tarry smell. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-brown cap and greyish gills without the green tone of sulphur tuft. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Grey-green to brownish cap, soapy smell and flesh that often reddens slowly. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Small orange-brown mushroom with thick lilac gills and violet mycelium at the stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Red cap, yellow pore surface bruising blue slowly, and red stem with a yellow apex. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

A small, hollow, funnel-shaped mushroom with a brownish cap, pale ridges and a yellowish stem.

Large white funnel, thick brittle gills and a cap often soiled with earth. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

White funnel-shaped brittlegill with closer gills and often a blue-green band high on the stem. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Sticky pale-brown cap, radish smell and droplets on young gill edges. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Tough rusty-brown bracket with a yellow-brown margin and maze-like to gill-like folds beneath. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Large wine-red to brown cap, grey-violet gills and a robust cogwheel-patterned ring. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Yellow-orange sticky cap and a dark velvety stem base. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Pear-shaped fruit body with small spines; young interiors are uniformly white. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Cream-white dense flesh, a strong mealy smell and crowded gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Brown to cream cap, a ring and brownish mature gills. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.

Irregular white-margined bracket near ground level with a brown cap and pale pore surface. This profile covers broad field features, season and habitat for learning.