author

Roy Watling

b. 1938

A Scottish mycologist known for a lifetime spent studying fungi, he helped shape how mushrooms are identified, classified, and understood in the wild. His work ranges from naming new species to exploring fungal ecology, with a strong link to Scotland’s botanical world.

2 Audiobooks

Keys to Fungi on Dung

Keys to Fungi on Dung

by M. J. (Michael J.) Richardson, Roy Watling

Identification of the Larger Fungi

Identification of the Larger Fungi

by Roy Watling

About the author

Born in 1938, Roy Watling is a Scottish mycologist whose research has focused on fungal taxonomy and ecology. He is especially known for work on identifying new species and clarifying how different fungi are classified.

Watling worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where he became Head of Mycology & Plant Pathology. Sources also describe him as having held honorary academic positions, serving as a former president of the British Mycological Society, the Botanical Society of Scotland, and the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

His career has been widely recognized in British mycology. Available source material notes that he was awarded the Patrick Neill Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was involved in establishing a nature reserve at Dawyck specifically for fungi.