A feast of Fungi

After a couple of days of heavy rain the forest floor is covered in fungi. Here are a few we saw today. I hope I have identified them properly. Many species are very similar and it is easy to confuse the edible with the poisonous. During the autumn many people come to the forest for the fungi. The Forest byelaws allow you to pick for your own use but sadly many fungi collect high prices in restaurants and it is not unusual to see teams of people, especially from the contintent going out and stripping the woods bare. Saddest of all is to arrive in the carparks and find discarded fungi all around. In parts of europe the older folk know their fungi well and often you will find an elderly gentleman sitting in the car waiting for his team of young collectors to come back and he then he sorts through discarding the non edible ones.