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Saprobic Mushrooms

Saprobic mushrooms on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.

Crowded pale tan blistered cup fungi opening from dung-rich straw - Blistered Cup | KnowTheSpore

Blistered Cup

Peziza vesiculosa

Blistered cup is a pale tan cup fungus that often forms crowded, inflated young fruiting bodies on…

Inedible
A large white green-spored parasol with brown cap scales and a ringed stem growing in mown grass

Green-Spored Parasol

Chlorophyllum molybdites

Green-spored parasol is a large poisonous lawn mushroom whose gills change from white to gray-green as spores…

POISONOUS
A small tan liberty cap mushroom in grass with a conical cap and a sharp pointed tip

Liberty Cap

Psilocybe semilanceata

Liberty cap is a small grassland mushroom with a sharply conical, hygrophanous cap and a dark purple-brown…

POISONOUS

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