Mushrooms in season in July

An unmistakable white football in a field. Excellent eating while the flesh is pure white throughout.

The classic mushroom of unimproved pasture: white cap, pink gills darkening to brown, and a clean mushroomy smell.

A tall, elegant mushroom with a snakeskin stem and a cap that opens like a parasol.

A large relative of the field mushroom, smelling of aniseed and bruising slowly yellow in a harmless way.

The most sought-after wild mushroom in Britain: nutty, firm and richly scented, with a pale bun-like cap and a fat netted stem.

Egg-yolk yellow, trumpet-shaped and smelling faintly of apricots. One of the safest and finest edibles once learned.

A shaggy white column that dissolves itself into black ink within a day of opening.

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

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

A field-mushroom lookalike that turns bright chrome yellow when cut and makes most people ill.

Pure white, elegant and lethal. The one to check for whenever you pick a white mushroom.

A small pale funnel-shaped grassland mushroom; an important poisonous lookalike of edible spring species.

Once eaten widely in Europe, now known to cause a fatal immune reaction that builds up over repeated meals.

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

A small grassland mushroom that can form rings or arcs. Many unrelated mushrooms also form fairy rings.

A reddish bracket fungus that grows on broadleaf trees. Confirm the host and underside as well as the colour.

Vivid sulphur-yellow and orange brackets on standing trees, with a texture famously like chicken breast.

A small whitish puffball with a spiny outer surface, found on woodland floors and grassland.

Dark funnel-shaped fungi of broadleaf woodland, often hard to spot among fallen leaves.

A variable-coloured woodland brittlegill; cap colour alone is not a reliable identification feature.

A glossy reddish-brown bracket fungus; species within this group need specialist identification.

A pale woodland Agaricus that may smell of aniseed.

A shaggy parasol-like mushroom in coniferous woodland. Several similar species require careful separation.

Small pear-shaped puffballs clustered on decaying wood.

A brown-capped bolete associated with birch, often with dark scabers on the stem.

A yellow-brown bolete associated with larch trees. The cap can be sticky in wet weather.

An Amanita that can show reddish bruising. Identification requires a complete intact specimen.

Edible in itself, but it causes a violent reaction with alcohol taken up to three days later.