Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

Clavaria zollingeri, commonly known as violet coral. Photograph: Henri Koskinen/Alamy

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.