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Sandy stiltball (
Battarrea phalloides
)
This strange fungus has a small, rounded head borne on a shaggy ochre-brown stalk. The head is a mass of spores, which have a warty...
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Scaly breck lichen (
Squamarina lentigera
)
This rare lichen is circular in shape, and white to pale grey-brown...
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Scaly tooth (
Sarcodon imbricatus
)
The scaly tooth fungus is a member of the stipitate hydnoid fungi group. These fungi share some morphological characters, but are...
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Scrambled-egg lichen (
Fulgensia fulgens
)
As the common name suggests, scrambled-egg lichen has a thin, crust-like egg-yellow thallus (body), which consists of smaller...
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Starry breck-lichen (
Buellia asterella
)
This particular lichen grows on chalky soil, forming small white rosettes with small black discs about 0.5 millimetres across...
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Stinkhorn (
Phallus impudicus
)
Its terrible foetid smell as well as an unmistakable appearance makes the stinkhorn one of the most easily recognised species...
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