| Cramp Balls Daldinia
concentrica Common Habitat: Broad-leaved trees especially ash Also called King Alfred's Cakes  |
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| Candle Snuff
Xylaria hypoxylon Common Habitat: Broad-leaved woodland On dead wood |
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| Orange Peel Fungus
Octospora aurantia Occasional Habitat: Bare ground Irchester Country Park |
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| Jew's Ear
Auricularia auricula-judae Very common Habitat: Elder |
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| Yellow Brain Fungus
Tremella mesenterica Common Habitat: Dead wood of broad-leaved trees Especially October-March |
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| Blushing Bracket
Daedaleopsis confragosa Common Habitat: Broad-leaved trees Especially willow, alder, sallow and birch |
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| Little Japanese
Parasol Coprinus plicatilis Very common Habitat: Grassland Only lasts a few hours Garden lawns are ideal |
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| Shaggy Ink Cap
Coprinus comatus Common Habitat: Grassy places Blackens and liquifies with age, often in troops  |
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| Oyster Fungus
Pleurotus ostreatus Common Habitat: Broad-leaved trees On dead wood  |
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| Common Yellow
Russula Russula ochroleuca Common Habitat: Broad-leaved and coniferous woodland The most commonly seen yellow russula  |
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| Sulphur Tuft
Hypholoma fasculare Very common Habitat: Dead wood Our commonest fungi |
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| Amethyst Deceiver
Laccaria amethystea Occasional Habitat: Woodland |
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| St George's Mushroom
Calocybe gambosa Uncommon Habitat: Limestone grassland Brigstock Country Park  |
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| Common Earthball
Scleroderma citrinum Common Habitat: Bare ground in woodland |
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| Stinkhorn
Phallus impudicus Locally common Habitat: Woodland Pungent smell is often the first sign of this distinctive fungi Harlestone Firs  |
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