Graveyards, sheep farms and garden lawns are among the hundreds of new sites for rare pink and purple fungi discovered by citizen scientists.
The charity Plantlife has enlisted 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in their local areas, so scientists can get data from places such as private gardens to which they have not previously had access.
They found 300 new locations of the candy-coloured pink waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis), which is classed as “vulnerable” on the global International Union for Con
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