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Sporalo
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Species guide

The nine mushrooms followed by Sporalo: how to recognise them, the look-alikes to avoid, their forests and their season.

Caution. This guide helps you search, not identify with certainty. Never eat a mushroom you are not absolutely sure about: if in doubt, show your harvest to a pharmacist or a mycological society; if you have symptoms, call 112 (999 in the UK) or a poison centre.
Two Bordeaux ceps with brown caps and pale swollen stems, in woodland undergrowth

Ceps

Boletus edulis & groupe

 Three egg-yellow chanterelles growing in green moss

Chanterelles

Cantharellus cibarius & groupe

 Blond morel with an ochre honeycombed cap, among spring grasses

Morels

Morchella spp.

 Hedgehog mushrooms with cream caps among dead leaves

Hedgehog mushrooms

Hydnum repandum & rufescens

 Grey-black funnel-shaped black trumpets in golden dead leaves

Black trumpets

Craterellus cornucopioides & cinereus

 Funnel chanterelles with brown caps and yellow stems

Funnel chanterelles

Craterellus tubaeformis

 Wood blewits with lilac caps in the litter

Wood blewits

Lepista nuda

 Orange saffron milk caps under pines

Saffron milk caps

Lactarius deliciosus & groupe

 Two parasol mushrooms in tall grass, a young one with a closed cap and an adult one spread like a parasol on a long banded stem

Parasol mushrooms

Macrolepiota procera