Finding any fungi growing in April is unusual, let alone such meaty and substantive ones as these. Apparently these are very tasty, but are best picked after dry spells as they tend to soak up rain like a sponge.

This neat little, bright white and silky mushroom is easily spotted among the grass it grows up among.

Tiny, colourful, and only tentatively identified!

There aren't many mushrooms that fruit during snow or a heavy frost, but these certainly will! You might have encountered these in East-Asian food, where it is grown under special conditions to grow those amazing long white Enokitake mushrooms.

Be careful!
These mushrooms look superficially similar to the perfectly edible Velvet Shanks above and Sheathed Woodtuft below, but are deadly poisonous!
I suppose the name is a bit of a clue, but they don't come with name-tags...

Formerly Collybia, these particularly tough toughshanks can stand proud for many weeks at a time.

So close! These appear just like the prized edible from a distance, but close up the true gills and off-white flesh sets them apart.

Where there's one, there's always more! No walk in the woods is complete without discovering some Sulphur Tufts. These jolly things pop out by the thousand and are easily identified by their bright-yellow stipes and gills that stain an olive-green with their spores.

So very easily overlooked, perfectly camouflaged against the leaf litter they pop up among.

Check it out! This log is thoroughly occupied, and every year the fungus living inside chucks out hundreds upon hundreds of identical shrooms!

The very fetching purple version of the Deceiver. Apparently edible, but never seem all that enticing to me.

So-called Deceiver because no two ever look the same! These are very common and no walk is complete without finding a few.

Possibly the most-common dapperling, these can be found among deadwood and leaf-litter most of the year.

So-called blue legs, for what is hopefully an obvious reason. What an amazing colour!

The brown-capped, chunkier version of the above. It's such a lovely surprise to see such an amazing colour when looking under what seems like a nondescript, brown shroom.

These very cute little mushrooms can be found on mulch or bark chippings. They're very easy to miss!

Something out of a spooky film. These mysterious things popped up all around an Oak tree

Almost any time after a good downpour, these can be found forming beautiful rings in many lawns and meadows. It's quite remarkable how lush and green the grass becomes inside and around these distinctive rings.

One of mym favourites. Absolutely tiny, and stunningly detailed and delicate.

These look just like Psilocybe, if you squint... Zoom in on the picture of the gills to see the tell-tale mottling in full display.

Also known as the mowers's mushroom, as these can be found in almost any grassy area.

Apparently these used to be considered edible, but I'd rather you than me! That's despite them looking just like Yorkshire puddings as well.

What amazing things! Although they look like they'd hurt if touched, they're remarkably soft. And as you can see from the various munches, something finds them quite tasty.

Just like the clustered brittlestem below, but with quite a distinctly cone-shaped cap.

As you can see, clustered is quite an underexaggeration. Notice how the colour changes dramatically by how wet they are, or not.

A particularly common, and particularly variable in appearance, mushroom. Whenever I've found something and thought "what am I looking at", this species is the first one I try to rule out.

One of the smallest mushrooms around, and doesn't tend to grow in clumps making it even cuter! I'm a big fan.

The Emo version of the above. Definitely not a phase.

There aren't very many actually blue mushrooms around, so this was a delightful find. The caps are so very greasy I initially mistook it for a waxcap.