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

Large orange big laughing gym cluster with rusty gills and ringed stems - Big Laughing Gym | KnowTheSpore

Big Laughing Gym

Gymnopilus junonius

Big laughing gym is a large, bitter, orange-rust wood-decay mushroom with crowded gills, a stem ring, and a…

POISONOUS
Blackening waxcaps showing bright conical caps and progressive charcoal-black bruising - Blackening Waxcap | KnowTheSpore

Blackening Waxcap

Hygrocybe conica

Blackening waxcap begins as a bright pointed yellow, orange, or red mushroom and darkens gray-black after…

Inedible
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
Antler-form reishi branching from a colonized hardwood block

Antler Reishi

Ganoderma lucidum

Antler reishi is a growth form produced when a reishi culture keeps elongating instead of expanding a shelf…

Medicinal
Ivory funnels with pale frosted caps and short stems growing in autumn grass

Ivory Funnel

Clitocybe dealbata

Ivory funnel is a small pale grassland mushroom with a frosted cap, crowded white gills that run down a short…

POISONOUS
Dense sulphur tuft cluster with yellow caps and tan centers on a decaying stump

Sulphur Tuft

Hypholoma fasciculare

Sulphur tuft forms tight yellow clusters on dead wood. Its tan-centered caps, crowded gills that shift from…

POISONOUS

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