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• British Isles FUNGUS GROUPS  

  Buckinghamshire Fungus Group
  Cotswold Fungus Group
  Devon Fungus Group
  Dorset Fungus Group
  Dublin Naturalists Field Club Fungus Working Group 
  East Yorkshire Fungus Group
  Fungal Friends (Cheshire and Flintshire)
  Fungi To Be With (the London group)
  Grampian Fungus Group North East Scotland
  Gwent Fungus Group
  Hampshire Fungus Recording Group
  Herefordshire and Gwent Fungus Survey Groups
  Huntingdon Fungus Group
  Leicestershire Fungi Study Group
  Melbourn Mushroom Club
  Mid Yorkshire Fungus Group
  Norfolk Fungus Study Group
  North Somerset and Bristol Fungus Group
  North West Fungus Group: Counties Cheshire, Clwyd, Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside; and Greater Manchester
  Nottinghamshire Fungus Group
  Pembroke Fungus Recording Network
  Warwickshire Fungus Survey
  
  
  GROUPS OUTSIDE THE BRITISH ISLES (only a taster of course)

   

  • European Mycological Association website. This important new organisation, established at the 2003 Congress of European Mycologists, has now got a web presence.
  • ECCF (the European Congress for the Conservation of Fungi) 
  • Wiesław Kamiński's website on Polish fungi. 
  • Gruppo Micologico G.Bresadola from Italy
  • The Fungi of Ecuador  Photos of the weird and wonderful
  • The Fungi of Burkina Faso More photos of the weird and wonderful
  • The Saprotrophic, parasitic, and symbiotic fungi of Poland Includes an excellent illustrated dictionary and well explained taxonomic descriptions
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) Another Polish site with again excellent background and detail to this group
  • The Sydney Fungal Studies Group in Australia. I personally found the waxcap page very interesting!
  • New Zealand Fungi
  • Wild Mushrooms from Tokyo
  • Prairie States Mushroom Club (Iowa USA)

  See also the EMA website for lots lots more links

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  British Mycological Society

  • British Mycological Society
  • CABI Biosciences - the portal to many useful pages including Index Fungorum
  • BMS Fungus Records Database of the British Isles (FRDBI)
  • Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
  • MycoRec for recording fungi
  • Field Mycology, a BMS publication devoted to the identification and study of wild fungi in Britain and Europe.
  • Guides for the Amateur Mycologist
  • KEYS
  • Mycologist News  (used to be BMS Newsletter)
  • Postcards of Higher Fungi
  • BMS Abstracting service (abstracts of articles from a huge range of journals)
  • Recommended list of English names

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  Other Fungal Sites

  • Mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
  • Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Association of British Fungus Groups
  • Plantlife are the lead agency for Fungal Biodiversity Action Plans and they also coordinate the Fungal Conservation Forum which brings together many disparate organisations interested in fungal conservation.
  • Myko Web     Fungi from San Francisco
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Mycology     An incredible list of mycological sites on the Internet - it goes on and on.
  • Tom Volk's Fungi     Lots of images of fungi and a piece all about Armillaria in the Northern Hemisphere . It also has a Fungus of the Month. 
  • The Bibliography of Systematic Mycology - an online searchable database run by CABI which allows the searching of mycological literature on "genus" or "author"
  • Index Fungorum, the world database of all fungal names also hosted by CABI
  • The Dictionary of the Fungi, again hosted by CABI
  • The Fifth Kingdom - A fantastically detailed look at the classification of fungi, their ecology, plant pathology, as agents of biocontrol, as exploiters of microscopic animals, symbiosis with animals, mycorrhizae, as food, mycotoxins and medical mycology amongst other subjects
  • Edible Fungi and heavy metal concentrations - the MAFF survey results from England and Wales
  • University of Paisley Biodiversity Pages (includes a section on fungi written by Alan Silverside)
  • Taylor Lockwood's photography site (recommended for the quality of the photographs)
  • How to grow crystals eg Iron Sulphate for checking your Russulas! 
  • Fungi Fest (an American site that is well worth a look)
  • Clive Shirley's website on Fungi of New Zealand
  • The Scottish Wild Mushroom Code  A group called the Scottish Wild Mushroom Forum has been set up recently in order to ensure responsible and sustainable collection of fungi. 
  • English code of conduct for picking wild fungi. 
  • Mycolegium. Roy Moore's revision of the old BMS website. 
  • Cap and Stems, some thoughts on edible and poisonous fungi in Colorado.This has a very good links page.
  • Fungal Succession under Scots Pine in Surrey
  • The fungal web 
  • Woodchip fungi 
  • "Ecology and Management of Commercially Harvested Chanterelle Mushrooms" by David Pilz, Lorelei Norvell, Eric Danell and Randy Molina, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service
  • Hadrianus Junius and his work on Phallus
    
  • Online maps of Welsh grassland fungi
  • Wild Mushrooms Online

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  On-line keys and sites about particular groups

  • Morel Madness. All you could possibly want to know about Morels
  • The only Dancing Morel on the internet. You can't miss this site!
  • Mycena Page   Includes a key to Norwegian Mycenas  
  • All about the Xylariaceae including a review of Daldinia and Hypoxylon. The fascinating story of Daldinia concentrica and the "battle" over its name is told
  • The Cortinarius subgenus Phlegmacium website
  • The Cortinarius subgenus Dermocybe website
  • The Journal of European Cortinarius. A group whose goal is to establish contacts and scientific bonds between European mycologists interested in studying the genus Cortinarius. Some of its activities is holding work meetings and periodic conferences as well as publishing a journal.
  • Mykokey - a Danish site which provides an online key to Genus. It also contains lots of photos
  • PezWeb - a North American site devoted to Pezizales 
  • TuberKey - a site with keys that allow the identification of truffles
  • A key to Collybia in NE America
  • A Swedish Lactarius site
  • CORTBASE - A nomenclatural database of Corticioid Fungi
  • A Dutch Coprinus website by Kees Ulje which includes a downloadable identification program 
  • A North American Lactarius website. 
  • Rob Tulloss' website devoted to Amanita  Includes keys and an increasing amount of photos - recommended.
  • The Boletes of California - an online reprint of Harry Thiers Field Guide to Californian Boletes
  • Michael Noordeloos' website on Entoloma
  • Michael Noordeloos' website on Psilocybe
  • The strange world of Myxomycetes (Slime Moulds) in the MyxoWeb
  • All about Moulds
  • Collybia Field key
  • Russula News - an excellent on-line newsletter about Russula and Lactarius
  • British Waxcaps - hosted by the University of Aberystwyth
  • Indicators of habitat quality in European Beech forests. A research document from Natural England looking at fungal indicators of old dead beech wood
  • Somerset Grassland Fungi Survey
  • The Genus Leccinum in Europe -a Dutch study which included a major reworking of the group after DNA analysis
  • Key to Psilocybe
  • Key to the European species of Lactarius sect. Deliciosi
  • Alick Henrici's key to British Clavariod fungi
   

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  Fungal Photography Websites

  • Index of fungi pages or photographs on The Net - Fungi of Poland 

  • Fungi Images on the Net

  • Tom Volk's Fungi

  • Pilze (a German website)

  • Pilzbestimmung, a second German website with excellent photos

  • Chez Alice, a French website

  • Roger Phillips Website

  • Yves Deneyer's website from Belguim

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  UK Biodiversity Action Plans (for species in N.Ireland)

  • Boletus satanus  

  • Hygrocybe calyptriformis  

  • Microglossum olivaceum  

  • The Stipitate Hydnoids  

  • Armillaria ectypa

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