Keeping Notes - guidelines for fungus recording

Each Fungus Group has its preferred recording systems for location and habitat data. This general-purpose record sheet is easily modified to suit other purposes:

Date	Day, month, year
Location	Venue details
Situation	Solitary, group size etc
Substrate	On living/dead wood (type), in moss, leaf litter, soil
Cap	Diameter, colour, nature of surface, odour etc
Gills/tubes	Colour, shape, size, crowded/spaced etc
Spore print	Colour
Stem	Diameter, length, shape, colour, nature of surface
Base	Rooting, shape, volva etc
Other details	Colour changes, etc

Where possible, photograph specimens at various stages in development and from several angles. Here is a photo record of the Shaggy Ink Cap, Coprinus comatus:

Large group beneath giant redwoods	Mature specimens at edge of forest
Stem ring	Deliquescing stage

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Keeping Notes - guidelines for fungus recording

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