Like you, Lynne, I'm quite good at identifying plants but I find fungi baffling.

The other day I found a very distinctive mushroom on some sand dunes in Cumbria. It had the normal 'toadstool' top and a very distinctive long, banded stalk (I think that 'stipe' is the technical term). There was an illustration of something similar in one of my books - but when I looked up the same species in another book the illustration looked nothing like it. Very puzzling! Needless to say I won't be eating anything ...