THE study of Fungi in this country has gradually attained an importance which is sufficiently indicated by the appearance of the present much-needed work, comprising as it does the characters of ...

IT was in 1836 that Berkeley published his “British I Fungi” as a part of Hooker's “British Flora,” and for about a quarter of a century this was the standard work. In 186o appeared ...

Two species of fungi new to the UK and another previously unknown to science have been discovered in the Cairngorms. Amanita groenlandica is an Arctic species, while Acrodontium Antarcticum was ...

Fungi's role. Paul Cannon knows more than most, he's a British taxonomic mycologist, rarer now than many of the species he studies. But as we walk through the woods of Surrey hunting for fungi on a ...

Experts from the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of nature groups, want gardeners to buy British to avoid bringing in new invasive species that could threaten more of Britain's nature.

Hundreds of species are collected and eaten as food, with the global market for edible mushrooms worth £32.5bn a year Only 56 types of fungi have been evaluated for the IUCN Red List, compared ...

Unfortunately, finding wild mushrooms can be a dangerous game. There are around 4000 species of fungi in Britain, over 250 of which are thought to be toxic, and around 200 people each year suffer ...

The British Mycological Society has an enormous list of fungi species with their scientific and common English names.