• British Isles FUNGUS GROUPS  

    Devon Fungus Group
    Dorset Fungus Group
    Dublin Naturalists Field Club Fungus Working Group 
    East Yorkshire Fungus Group
    Fungi To Be With (the London group)
    Fungus Group of South East Scotland
    Grampian Fungus Group North East Scotland
    Hampshire Fungus Recording Group
    Herefordshire Fungus Survey Group
    Huntingdon Fungus Group
    Melbourn Mushroom Club
    Mid Yorkshire Fungus Group
    Norfolk Fungus Study Group
    North West Fungus Group: Counties Cheshire, Clwyd, Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside; and Greater Manchester
    Nottinghamshire Fungus Group
    Pembroke Fungus Recording Network
    Reading Fungus Group
    Warwickshire Fungus Survey


    GROUPS OUTSIDE THE BRITISH ISLES

     

    • European Mycological Association website. This important new organisation, established at the 2003 Congress of European Mycologists, has now got a web presence.
    • La Société Mycologique du Pays de Montbéliard. From the east of France, this website (in French) features some excellent photography of fungi and some of their microscopic features - a useful opportunity to see spores shapes and what some features like cystidia look like. 
    • 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!

       

    British Mycological Society

    • British Mycological Society
    • BMS pages hosted by CABI Biosciences - the portal to many useful pages 
    • BMS Foray Records Database (BMSFRD)
    • BMS Foray Box (References for Identifying Fungi)
    • MycoRec for recording fungi
    • Field Mycology, a new 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

    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.
    • Mike Walton's Home Page     This site includes the full text and illustrations of the following Victorian books about fungi:
      • The Esculent Funguses of England by C D Badham (1863)
      • Micro-Fungi by Thomas Brittain (1882)
      • A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi by M C Cooke (1898)
    • Mycology Information (Mycoinfo)     An American Mycology e-journal 
    • Myko Web     Fungi from San Francisco
    • Norwegian Fungus of the Month    Recommended 
    • Recording Fungi in North West England     
    • 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, is searchable at this site 
    • 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)
    • Jim Field's photography site
    • 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
    • Use of Scottish Fungi - an interesting site showing how fungi can be used for food, medicine or to make paper or dyes. 
    • 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. Read the English Nature press release or some commentary for the text 
    • 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.
    • Mushrooms and Magic: the Mycotheology Home Page
    • Fungal Succession under Scots Pine in Surrey
    • The fungal web 
    • Woodchip fungi 
    • The 14th Congress of European Mycologists, Crimea, Ukraine
    • The ECCF (the European Congress for the Conservation of 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

    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!
    • Leccinum Revisited by Roy Watling (a field key)  
    • 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
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    • 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
    • You can order a monograph of the genus Amanita (mainly in Italian) from the website of the Gruppo Micologico G.Bresadola. It costs 60,000 lira or 30.99 euros. See the BMS Newsletter page 17 (May 2001 issue) for details on articles in the monograph. 
    • 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
    • The Genus Flammulina by Ronald Petersen, Karen Hughes and Scott Redhead 
    • 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. An important website listing indicator species and the top spots so far identified for the fungi on dead beech wood.
    • Somerset Grassland Fungi Survey

     

    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)

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

    • Boletus satanus  

    • Hygrocybe calyptriformis  

    • Microglossum olivaceum  

    • The Stipitate Hydnoids  

    • Armillaria ectypa

    Specialist Book Shops

    • Richmond Publishing: PO Box 963, Slough SL2 3RS Tel: 01753 643104 e-mail:

    • Pendleside Books: 359 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley, BB12 9QA Tel: 01282-615617

    • Mykoflora (Italy): Via Valbone 61, I - 17021 - Alassio-Moglio (SV), Italy e-mail: (with the good exchange rate, excellent prices can be had here)

    Microscope dealers

    • AGB Scientific Apparatus, The Medical Centre, Kilroot Park, Carrickfergus BT38 7PR Tel: 028 9335 1302

    • Analab Analytical Lab Supplies, 100 Church Street, Dromore BT25 1AA e-mail:sales@analab.co.uk Tel: 028 9269 9399

    • Wishart Group, Milewater House, Mill Road, Ballyclare, Co.Antrim e-mail:sales@wishartgroup.co.uk Tel: 028 9334 0889

    • Brunel Microscopes

    • Meiji Techno UK (formally Hampshire Micro)

    Specialist Mycological Shops

    • Mycologue - the one stop UK shop for mushroom enthusiasts 

    • Mushroom-Madness - mycological objet's d'art.
    • Jayfruit - suppliers of food and mushroom products.
    • Tecfoods - suppliers of mushrooms and other speciality foods.
    • Future Foods - suppliers of seeds for edible plants
    • Growing mushrooms with hydrogen proxide - an American system
    • Mykonova: mykonova@btinternet.com  For mushroom cook books
    • Jac by the Stowl     Sells mushroom patches and hardwood logs inoculated with the spawn of native and exotic species of edible fungi.
    • Fungi Perfecti An Amercian company who claim to be "a cutting-edge, Certified Organic company specializing in using gourmet & medicinal mushrooms for improving the health of the planet and its people".

    Northern Ireland or other Conservation Sites

    • Environment & Heritage Service (the statutory nature conservation for Northern Ireland)
    • CEDaR (the NI Biological and Geological records centre at the Ulster Museum)
    • The Flora of Northern Ireland Look at this site for up to date information on the distribution of Northern Ireland's plants which are of course so linked with our fungi.
    • The National Biodiversity Network Gateway - the future of distributing data? Watch the site VERY carefully - an internet solution to combining all biological recording data exists and we should all be part of it! 
    • Dragonfly Ireland - An excellent site which demonstrates the power of the web for biological recording!!
    • RSPB
    • World Wildlife Fund
    • Butterfly Conservation
    • Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland branch  
    • Conservation Volunteers (NI) and BTCV
    • Northern Ireland Environmental Link 
    • Ulster Wildlife Trust 
    • NICSA - the Northern Ireland Countryside Staff Association
    • Wildlinks  A website with lots of contacts for environmental organisations mainly in the Republic of Ireland.
    • The Woodland Trust  
    • The Ancient Tree Forum  
    • The National Federation for Biological Recording  
    • The UK Biodiversity Website  
    • A Donegal hedgerow - a year in the life of an ancient hedgerow outside Raphoe

    Butter Cap - Collybia butrycea

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