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Fungi: mushrooms, toadstools identification, fungus forays, science
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Fungi - the most Colourful, Curious Kingdom of Life on Earth. Fungi Identification - Picture Galleries. Agaricaceae - True Mushrooms etc. Amanitaceae - Amanita and allies. Ascomycetes - Cup and Flask Fungi. Bolbitiaceae - Fieldcaps and allies. Boletales - Boletes and allies. Bracket and Crust Fungi. Entolomataceae - Pinkgills and allies. Gasteromycetes - Puffballs etc. Heterobasidiomycetes - Jelly Fungi. Hygrophoraceae - Waxcaps and Woodwaxes. Fungi have no c...
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wild orchids, Britain, Europe, picture gallery
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Welcome to the Britain and Ireland Wild Orchid Photo Gallery. Here is a selection of images of the many wild orchids of the British Isles that are featured in the First Nature guide to Wild Orchids in Wales. For more details, sample pages and contents lists. Dozens more wild orchids of Britain and Europe are featured in the First Nature Wildflower Guide. Kenfig National Nature Reserve. Coastal dune slacks, roadside verges and Kenfig National Nature Reserve.
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Planning and organising fungus forays
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Planning and Managing a Fungus Foray. As with any outdoors activity, planning and preparation are crucial to success. Are you concerned about safety? Where collecting edible fungi are concerned, this is of vital importance, but in any case there are always risks that need forethought and management. You will also be anxious to protect rare species and to minimise disturbance and avoidable damage to wildlfife habitats? How good are you at identifying fungi?
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FIRST NATURE website - latest news, special offers
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. News - recent updates, new pages and special offers. Fungi fanciers will be pleased to hear that at last we have created web pages for the Oilslick Brittlegill,. And the Flat Oysterling. Other improvements include a few more fungi nomenclature updates, which are now nearing completion. The next big project is a second edition of. An angler's entomology that has topped the best sellers for the past 20 years. More news about that soon. We have been adding sever...
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Wildflowers, fungi, wildlife; nature books, reserves, guides
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Your Wildlife Window on the World Wide Web. 1900 illustrated articles and identification guides. To wildlife, wildflowers, fungi and ecology, including 10,000 pictures and fact files about plants, fungi, insects, bats, birds and other animals; maps, photos and detailed site guides to Nature Reserves in Britain, Ireland, Europe and America. Microscopy for Amateur Mycologists. Online Guide to Mushroom Microscopy. More details ». More details ». Blue is not a co...
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Fungus Facts Quiz
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Fungus Fact and Fiction Quiz. Q1 How many large fungus species occur in Europe (approx). Q2 Ectomycorrhizal fungi are associated with. Sand dunes and other well-drained land. The roots of trees and bushes. Q3 Which is from the Cortinariales group? Q4 Which causes most poisoning deaths? Q5 To which group do puffball fungi belong? Q6 How many spores are produced by a bolete (approx). 5,000,000,000. Q7 Which of these genera contains the most species?
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Microscopy of spores, hyphae, cystidia, trama, to identify fungi
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Microscopes and the Amateur Mycologist - a Beginner's Guide. The information below is a summarized extract from Pat O'Reilly's latest book,. For full details and sample pages see our Bookshop, where you can order an author-signed copy online. The book also contains a glossary of mycological terms, and we have a summarised version here to help beginners. Spores of the Charcoal Burner,. Seen via an oil immersion microscope lens. My own microscope is trinocular ...
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mushroom madness links
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David Fisher's American Mushrooms. Dr Tom Volk's Mushroom Website. Marie Heerkens' Mushroom Art Gallery. The Forager's Virtual Wild Food Field Guide. Taylor Lockwood's Mushroom Photography. Pamela Kaminski's Mushroom Photography. Bill Russell's Wild Mushroom Site. Mushrooms and other Fungi on the Web. The Mycological Society of San Francisco. Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Marie Heerken's Mushroom Art Gallery. American Mushrooms by David Fischer. Bill Russell's Wild Wild Mushrooms.
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Fungi naming, author citation and biographies
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Origins of Scientific Names of Fungi; Authors and Convention for Citation. Standard Abbreviations and Author Biographies. Problems with using common names given to fungi. Origins and meanings of fungi genus names. The information below is a summarized version of one of the appendices in Pat O'Reilly's latest book,. For full details and sample pages see our Bookshop, where you can order an author-signed copy online. Pliable, or sticky. Loose or free gills.
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Fungi: mushrooms, toadstools identification, fungus forays, science
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Care of Pot Orchids. Books on Welsh Wildlife. Fungi - the most Colourful, Curious Kingdom of Life on Earth. Fungi Identification - Picture Galleries. Agaricaceae - True Mushrooms etc. Amanitaceae - Amanita and allies. Ascomycetes - Cup and Flask Fungi. Bolbitiaceae - Fieldcaps and allies. Boletales - Boletes and allies. Bracket and Crust Fungi. Entolomataceae - Pinkgills and allies. Gasteromycetes - Puffballs etc. Heterobasidiomycetes - Jelly Fungi. Hygrophoraceae - Waxcaps and Woodwaxes. Fungi have no c...