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A little copse in St.Leonards. Favourite spot of mine for parasols as the adjoining fields also have parasols every year guaranteed. Better still, there's shaggy parasols there too which are the sweeter of the two. I found this Beefstake on an Oak of course(not sure if they grow on any other...

Talking of some of my own unmistakables. Went to my favourite parasol haunt earlier this evening. Not a parasol in sight, but did find a rather splendid looking beefstake fungus. First photo is taken in auto mode to light up the vivid red (note the 'bleed' coming through the cap). Second...

Brains on sticks? my thoughts exactly. Never eaten them either as they smell bloody horrible! But again, supposed to be quite a delicacy.

Maybe the stinkorns? Although they start out slimy and egg (bulb) like and grow up from there. Common stinkhorn starts out like a slimy green egg in the ground and stinks of rotten drains (attracting flies to it who then spread the spores on their feet) It can be eaten in this form apparently...

Yes, Lawyers wig.

Agree. Devils Bolete has a big bulbous stem, nothing like the one in that pic. The red on devils bolete is really vivid too and the bitter smell alone would ward anyone off. I've no firm idea what the bolete in that pic is. Often the stem size, shape and even the webbing that appears on some...

This was a great series from back in the early days of Channel 4 rz5bFGbkIMQ

Oh, something else to add too. Different people react differently to different mushrooms. Apparently true of the hallucinogens, especially as the age of the mushroom affects it's toxicity too. But I once picked a load of honey fungus with a mate and we cooked it up in a curry as it's said to...

Pretty much all of the above for me. Another few certainties for me to add to that list are hedgehog fungus, blewits, horn of plenty, beefstake fungus, shaggy inkcaps, chicken of the woods. Funnily enough, your common shop bought mushroom is from the Agaricus family. There's about 300 odd...