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The images featured here are of fungi that I have found growing in the Devon and Cornwall
region. I do my best to try and identify them correctly and have in the past appreciated the
help and advice of a number of fungi experts, and I hope this continues. Fungi are most certainly not included in my field of expertise and I'm undergoing quite a learning curve here, so if any
errors are seen then please put me on the right track, it'll certainly help others as well as me.
Many fungi are incredibly difficult to identify with any certainty, and usually cannot
be accurately identified using images alone. As I do not currently have the facilities for
microscopic examination, or the literature to verify many of the fungi I find, many of the
fungi found on this site, either have a question mark (?) after their name, when I am fairly
sure of the identity, or are placed on the Fungi to Identify page when I haven't a clue as
to their identity and where I need the help and suggestions of others.
The overall aim though is produce an enjoyable photographic guide of what is possible to
see whilst visiting various habitats throughout the region at specific times of the year, and
hopefully at some point in time provide a useful reference to the fungi of the region.
I do hope to be able to take photos of spore prints and feature some microscopic
images on this site in the future and so that more knowledgeable people who may
browse the images may be more able to accurately identify them, or at least identify them
with a little more certainty than I, increasing my own personal understanding, but also
helping with my own recording of them. Many species being under-recorded primarily
because of the lack of people that are able to identify them. I think this is quite strange,
because it's a very interesting and absorbing subject of study.
The emphasis of this site is what you can see in the region rather than what you can eat,
I have no interest in stating which mushrooms or toadstools are edible, and which are poisonous. There is plenty of information to be found on edibility on the internet already, and of course I have no wish to be sued by anyone who has ingested the wrong type. Although, I am pretty sure that anything you find in a supermarket is probably edible, if sold within the sell by date.
The fungi featured on this site are very roughly broken up into groups, and this is to aid browsing.
As more fungi images are placed on this site there will be more of a need to taxonomically
arrange them, and into genera and family groups. This might sound scientific to some, but this
will be very useful in determining the differences between similar looking species of the same
family, and best help the general public identify what they might have seen.
There are two fungus groups in the region, they include the The Devon Fungus Group,
website link supplied below, and the Cornwall Fungus Recording Group.
Mushrooms and Toadstools (Homobasidiomycetes)
A B C D-G H I-K L M N-Q R S-Z
Various Other Fungi
Bracket Fungi (Polyporales) and Other Related Fungi
Earth Fans and Tooth Fungi (Thelephorales)
Coral Spots, Bark Spots and the Candle Snuff Family
Puffballs, Earthballs and Bird's Nests
Stinkhorns (Phallales)
Clubs, Corals and Cups (Ascomycetes)
Saddles and Morels (Ascomycetes)
Jelly Fungi (Heterobasidiomycetes)
Rusts (Basidiomycota)
Smuts and other Basidiomycota
Other Fungi
Other Galleries
The Slime Mould Gallery The Lichen Gallery
Help Needed
Fungi to Identify
Other Links
Fungi on the Internet
Contact Details References Copyright Policy
SITE MAP HOMEPAGE
For images of Wildflowers and Wildlife
found across the Devon and Cornwall Peninsula visit
www.aphotoflora.com and www.aphotofauna.com
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