British Isles Fungus Groups
Borders Fungus Group
Buckinghamshire Fungus Group
Carmarthenshire Fungi
Clyde and Argyll Fungus Group
Cotswold Fungus Group
Devon Fungus Group
Dorset Fungus Group
East Yorkshire Fungus Group
Fungal Friends (Cheshire and Flintshire)
Fungi To Be With (the London group)
Glamorgan Fungus Group
Grampian Fungus Group North East Scotland
Gwent Fungus Group
Hampshire Fungus Recording Group
Herefordshire Fungus Group
Highland Fungus Group
Huntingdon Fungus Group
Leicestershire Fungi Study Group
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
South East Scotland Fungus Group
Tayside and Fife Fungus Group
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)
- 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 Sydney Fungal Studies Group in Australia. I personally found the waxcap page very interesting!
- New Zealand Fungi
- Wild Mushrooms from Tokyo
See also the EMA website for lots lots more links
British Mycological Society
- British Mycological Society
- Lost and Found Project
- Index Fungorum
- BMS Fungus Records Database of the British Isles (FRDBI) Old Site
- FRDBI New site
- Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
- Field Mycology, a BMS publication devoted to the identification and study of wild fungi in Britain and Europe.
Other Fungal Sites
- The All-Ireland Mushroom Festival
- 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
- First Nature website about British Fungi
- 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 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
- Taylor Lockwood’s photography site (recommended for the quality of the photographs)
- 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.
- Cap and Stems, some thoughts on edible and poisonous fungi in Colorado.This has a very good links page.
- “Ecology and Management of Commercially Harvested Chanterelle Mushrooms” by David Pilz, Lorelei Norvell, Eric Danell and Randy Molina, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service
- Wild Mushrooms Online
On-line keys and sites about particular groups
- Morel Madness. All you could possibly want to know about Morels
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Key to the European species of Lactarius sect. Deliciosi
- Alick Henrici’s key to British Clavariod fungi
Fungal Photography Websites
- Carmarthenshire Fungi Flickr site
- Index of fungi pages or photographs on The Net – Fungi of Poland
- Fungi Images on the Net
- Pilzbestimmung, a German website with excellent photos
- Chez Alice, a French website
- Yves Deneyer‘s website from Belguim
- Fungi Stock Photos at Foto Search
Northern Ireland Priority Species Accounts
- Armillaria ectypa
- Boletus satanus
- Clavaria zollingeri
- Dencoeliopsis johnstonii
- Entoloma bloxamii
- Geoglossum atropurpureum
- Hydnellum concrescens
- Hydnellum spongiosipes
- Hygrocybe calyptriformis
- Hygrocybe lacmus
- Hygrocybe ovina
- Microglossum olivaceum
- Phellodon melaleucus
- Porpoloma metapodium
- Trichoglossum walteri
Specialist Book Shops
- Pendleside Books: 359 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley, BB12 9QA Tel: 01282-615617
- NHBS
- Summerfield Books
- Edizioni Candusso, another Italian bookstore
Microscope dealers
- Analab Analytical Lab Supplies, 100 Church Street, Dromore BT25 1AA e-mail:sales@analab.co.uk Tel: 028 9269 9399
- Brunel Microscopes
- Meiji Techno UK (formally Hampshire Micro)
- Microscience
Specialist Mycological Shops and Suppliers
Ireland or other Conservation Sites
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency (the statutory nature conservation for Northern Ireland – used to be called Environment & Heritage Service)
- CEDaR (the NI Biological and Geological records centre at the Ulster Museum)
- National Biodiversity Data Centre – the Republic of Ireland Biological Records Centre
- 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.
- Lichen Ireland
- The National Biodiversity Network Atlas – 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!!
- Northern Ireland Priority Species
- RSPB
- World Wildlife Fund
- Butterfly Conservation
- Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland branch
- Conservation Volunteers (NI) and BTCV
- Ulster Wildlife Trust
- The Woodland Trust
- The Ancient Tree Forum
- The National Federation for Biological Recording
- A Donegal hedgerow – a regularly updated pictorial narrative of the wildlife around Raphoe
- Irish Biogeographical Society – The Society encourages the study of Irish Biodiversity especially the distribution of plants and animals
