Mushrooms in season in December

A winter mushroom: sticky orange caps in clusters on dead elm and other broadleaf wood, often through frost.

Shell-shaped tiers on dead broadleaf wood, often after the first cold snap.

Small, hollow-stemmed and abundant in late autumn moss, often carpeting whole banks.

Rubbery brown ears growing on elder all year round. The same species sold dried in Chinese cookery.

Dense sulphur-yellow clusters on stumps all year. Very common, very bitter, and toxic.

A pasture mushroom with a dull buff cap and an unmistakable violet-blue stem.

A late-season woodland mushroom with a striking lilac flush and a perfumed smell.

A pale orange-buff waxcap of old, unimproved grassland.

A pale translucent mushroom often found on dead beech wood.

A small red waxcap associated with old grassland.

Thin white shelf-like fruit bodies on dead conifer wood. Do not treat a photograph as proof of identity or safety.