All Mushrooms
Browse mushrooms by edibility, compare their field marks, and check preparation cautions and dangerous lookalikes.
Choice Edible
10 speciesPrized edible mushrooms sought by cooks and foragers for flavor and texture.
Black Truffle
Tuber melanosporumPérigord black truffle is a winter-fruiting underground fungus with black polygonal warts and dark…
Black Trumpet
Craterellus cornucopioidesBlack trumpet is a thin, hollow, dark funnel with no true gills and a pale fertile outer surface…
Bronze Bolete
Boletus aereusBronze bolete is a dark-capped Mediterranean porcini with fine pale pores, a netted stout stem, and…
Caesar's Mushroom
Amanita caesareaCaesar's mushroom is the exception people quote at anybody who says never eat an Amanita, and the…
Chanterelle
Cantharellus cibariusA chanterelle is worth learning because its best edible traits are also its safety checks. Look for…
Hedgehog Mushroom
Hydnum repandumThe hedgehog is the mushroom you can identify with a thumb. Turn one over and the underside is…
Maitake
Grifola frondosaMaitake is the one common wild edible you can own as a place rather than find as an event. It…
Matsutake
Tricholoma matsutakeThe matsutake is sold by smell. A strong spicy cinnamon and pine scent is what makes it the most…
Porcini
Boletus edulisA defensible *Boletus edulis* identification combines several characters rather than trusting a…
White Chanterelle
Cantharellus subalbidusWhite chanterelle is a dense ivory chanterelle of western North American conifer forests. Its blunt…
Edible
6 speciesSafe to eat when properly identified and cooked. Good everyday table mushrooms.
Enoki
Flammulina filiformisEnoki is a farmed crop, and almost nothing about the packet describes a mushroom anybody would meet…
Oyster Mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatusOyster mushrooms are one of the best beginner edibles because the growth pattern is so practical…
Saffron Milk Cap
Lactarius deliciosusThe saffron milk cap does three things that read as spoilage to anyone meeting it for the first…
Shiitake
Lentinula edodesShiitake is a cultivated hardwood mushroom with a deep savory flavor. The practical rule is simple…
Tremella
Tremella fuciformisTremella does not eat wood. It is a parasite of other fungi, and the branch it appears on is being…
White Truffle
Tuber magnatumThe Italian white truffle is the underground fruit body of *Tuber magnatum*, prized for an aroma…
Edible with Caution
13 speciesEdible only after specific preparation (thorough cooking, parboiling) or for some people cause reactions.
Australian Honey Fungus
Armillaria luteobubalinaAustralian honey fungus forms dense autumn clusters with honey-brown scaled caps, cream-white…
Black Morel
Morchella angusticepsMorchella angusticeps is the classic eastern North American black morel. Its conical cap has mostly…
Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureusChicken of the woods is one of the easiest wild mushrooms to recognize and one of the easier ones…
Field Mushroom
Agaricus campestrisThe field mushroom is the wild relative of the mushroom in your shopping, and it is identified by a…
Gray Morel
Morchella esculentoidesOn this page, gray morel means the young gray form of the eastern yellow morel Morchella…
Half-Free Morel
Morchella punctipesThe eastern half-free morel, Morchella punctipes, has a small pitted cap joined partway down a long…
Morel
Morchella esculentaA morel is a spring edible with a strict safety routine. The lengthwise hollow test comes before…
Shaggy Mane
Coprinus comatusThe shaggy mane is the only common edible mushroom that destroys itself while you are deciding…
Shaggy Parasol
Chlorophyllum rhacodesThe shaggy parasol is a good edible mushroom with one test standing between it and a serious…
Slippery Jack
Suillus luteusThe slippery jack is named for the one part of it you throw away. The glutinous skin on the cap is…
The Blusher
Amanita rubescensThe blusher is eaten across Europe and sits in the genus that kills people. An edible reputation…
Velvet Shank
Flammulina velutipesVelvet shank is a north-temperate, cold-season wood mushroom with a sticky amber cap, pale gills…
Wood Blewit
Lepista nudaA lilac mushroom in leaf litter stops people walking, and that is the whole problem with the wood…
Medicinal
9 speciesUsed as a supplement or functional food rather than a culinary vegetable.
Agarikon
Laricifomes officinalisAgarikon is a long-lived chalky conk of old conifers, especially larch, with a pale pore surface…
Antler Reishi
Ganoderma lucidumAntler reishi is a growth form produced when a reishi culture keeps elongating instead of expanding…
Chaga
Inonotus obliquusChaga is the black cracked mass on a living birch, and it is not a mushroom in the way most people…
Cordyceps
Ophiocordyceps sinensisCordyceps is a fungus that kills a caterpillar and grows a club out of its head, and it is one of…
Lion's Mane
Hericium erinaceusLion's Mane is the white tooth fungus that looks like a shaggy pom-pom on hardwood. It is easy to…
Mesima
Tropicoporus linteusMesima is the trade and traditional-use name most often connected with *Phellinus linteus*, now…
Poria
Wolfiporia cocosPoria is unusual because the traded material is a buried storage structure called a sclerotium, not…
Reishi
Ganoderma sichuanenseReishi is a varnished hardwood bracket that is famous as a medicine and useless as food. The…
Turkey Tail
Trametes versicolorTurkey tail is the most photographed mushroom in the woods and one of the most often misnamed…
Inedible
6 speciesNot toxic, but too tough, bitter, or unpalatable to be worth eating.
Birch Polypore
Fomitopsis betulinaBirch polypore is a smooth pale bracket found almost exclusively on birch. The birch host and…
Bitter Bolete
Tylopilus felleusThe bitter bolete will not hurt you and it will cost you dinner. It is not poisonous, and it is…
Blackening Waxcap
Hygrocybe conicaBlackening waxcap begins as a bright pointed yellow, orange, or red mushroom and darkens gray-black…
Blistered Cup
Peziza vesiculosaBlistered cup is a pale tan cup fungus that often forms crowded, inflated young fruiting bodies on…
False Death Cap
Amanita citrinaThe name is a warning about your eyes rather than a rating of the mushroom. A false death cap is…
Red-Belted Conk
Fomitopsis pinicolaRed-belted conk is a hard perennial bracket with a dark varnished crust, a red-orange band, a pale…
Poisonous
47 speciesToxic and dangerous. Some species in this group are deadly.
Angel Wing
Pleurocybella porrigensAngel wing is a thin, white, nearly stemless fan growing in overlapping groups on decayed conifer…
Autumn Skullcap
Galerina marginataAutumn skullcap is a small rusty-spored mushroom on decaying wood that can contain amatoxins at…
Beautiful Clavaria
Ramaria formosaBeautiful clavaria is a branching coral fungus with a whitish base, salmon-pink branches, and…
Big Laughing Gym
Gymnopilus junoniusBig laughing gym is a large, bitter, orange-rust wood-decay mushroom with crowded gills, a stem…
Bitter Beech Bolete
Caloboletus calopusBitter beech bolete pairs a pale cap with yellow blue-bruising pores and a yellow-to-red netted…
Bitter Poisonpie
Hebeloma sinapizansBitter poisonpie is a large clay-brown Hebeloma with rusty spores, a coarse scaley ringless stem…
Blackedge Bonnet
Mycena pelianthinaBlackedge bonnet is a small lilac-gray woodland Mycena whose pale gills carry a narrow dark…
Blood-Red Webcap
Cortinarius sanguineusBlood-red webcap is a small conifer-woodland Cortinarius colored deep red across cap, young gills…
Booted Amanita
Amanita multisquamosaBooted amanita is a pale eastern North American Amanita with a darker cap center, white veil…
Brawny Bolete
Imperator torosusBrawny bolete is a rare massive European bolete with yellow-to-red pores, a yellow and red netted…
Brown Roll-Rim
Paxillus involutusBrown roll-rim is a poisonous mushroom group with two different clinical concerns. Gastrointestinal…
Burnt Knight
Tricholoma ustaleBurnt knight is a brown, wet-sticky, white-spored Tricholoma with notched pale gills that develop…
Common Earthball
Scleroderma citrinumCommon earthball is a tough yellow-brown fungus with a warted rind and an internal spore mass that…
Common Inkcap
Coprinopsis atramentariaCommon inkcap is a gray, clustered mushroom that digests its own gills into black liquid. Its…
Copper Roll Rim
Paxillus cuprinusThe copper roll rim is one of the mushrooms that used to be called brown roll rim. Molecular work…
Deadly Dapperling
Lepiota brunneoincarnataDeadly dapperling is a small pink-brown scaled *Lepiota* with free white gills, a fragile ring…
Deadly Fibrecap
Inosperma erubescensDeadly fibrecap is a pale fibrous woodland mushroom that develops brick-red stains across its cap…
Deadly Galerina
Galerina marginataA small brown mushroom on wood can carry the same toxin as a death cap. The check that matters is…
Deadly Parasol
Lepiota subincarnataDeadly parasol is a small scaled *Lepiota* with free white gills, a fragile veil zone, and felty…
Deadly Webcap
Cortinarius rubellusDeadly webcap is a tawny, pointed webcap that contains orellanine. The defining danger is delayed…
Death Cap
Amanita phalloidesA possible death cap ingestion is an emergency before the species is certain. For prevention…
Destroying Angel
Amanita bisporigeraA destroying angel is white from cap to spore print, which is exactly why it gets picked. Check for…
Devil's Bolete
Rubroboletus satanasDevil's bolete is a heavy pale-capped European bolete with red pores, a bulbous netted stem, and…
Eastern Flat-Top Agaricus
Agaricus placomycesEastern flat-top Agaricus is a woodland mushroom with a white cap covered in gray-brown scales…
False Morel
Gyromitra esculentaGyromitra esculenta is a poisonous spring cup fungus with a chestnut, brain-like cap and a pale…
Felt-Ringed Agaricus
Agaricus hondensisFelt-ringed agaricus is a poisonous western woodland mushroom with free gills that mature from pink…
Fly Agaric
Amanita muscariaEurasian fly agaric is the scarlet Amanita with loose white veil patches, white free gills, a…
Fool's Conecap
Pholiotina rugosaFool's conecap is a tiny moisture-changing brown mushroom with attached rusty-brown gills and a…
Fool's Funnel
Clitocybe rivulosaFool's funnel is a small whitish grassland mushroom with crowded gills running down a ringless…
Fool's Mushroom
Amanita vernaFool's mushroom, *Amanita verna*, is a deadly white amanita associated with European broadleaf…
Fool's Webcap
Cortinarius orellanusFool's webcap is a deadly orange-brown woodland mushroom whose gills and fine cobweb veil become…
Gemmed Amanita
Amanita gemmataThe gemmed amanita is a pale yellow woodland mushroom that is poisonous, and that is the easy…
Ghost Fungus
Omphalotus nidiformisGhost fungus is the mushroom everybody knows for glowing green in the dark, and that is the one…
Green-Spored Parasol
Chlorophyllum molybditesGreen-spored parasol is a large poisonous lawn mushroom whose gills change from white to gray-green…
Inky Mushroom
Agaricus moelleriThe inky mushroom, *Agaricus moelleri*, is a poisonous gray-scaled Agaricus that yellows strongly…
Ivory Funnel
Clitocybe dealbataIvory funnel is a small pale grassland mushroom with a frosted cap, crowded white gills that run…
Jack O'Lantern
Omphalotus illudensA Jack O'Lantern is the orange mushroom you learn so you can reject it fast. The field pattern is…
Liberty Cap
Psilocybe semilanceataLiberty cap is a small grassland mushroom with a sharply conical, hygrophanous cap and a dark…
Livid Pinkgill
Entoloma sinuatumLivid pinkgill is a large pale *Entoloma* whose broad gills begin yellowish white and mature to…
Panther Cap
Amanita pantherinaEuropean panther cap combines a brown, white-warted cap with white free gills, a fragile ring, and…
Sulphur Knight
Tricholoma sulphureumYou will smell this mushroom before you reach it. The sulphur knight carries a strong smell of…
Sulphur Tuft
Hypholoma fasciculareSulphur tuft forms tight yellow clusters on dead wood. Its tan-centered caps, crowded gills that…
Western Destroying Angel
Amanita ocreataWestern destroying angel is California's native white amatoxin-producing *Amanita*. Its free white…
White Fibrecap
Inocybe geophyllaWhite fibrecap is a small pointed white mushroom whose silky cap, attached gills, ringless stem…
Woolly Milkcap
Lactarius torminosusWoolly milkcap is a pink, concentrically zoned birch partner whose young cap margin rolls inward…
Yellow Knight
Tricholoma equestreYellow knight is a ringless, yellow-gilled Tricholoma of poor sandy ground under conifers. Fatal…
Yellow Stainer
Agaricus xanthodermusThe yellow stainer is probably the most frequently eaten poisonous mushroom in the world, and the…
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