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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:
Group of fungi
Large group beneath giant redwoods
Shaggy ink cap
Mature specimens at edge of forest

Stem
Stem ring

Decaying fungi
Deliquescing stage

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