Which Mushrooms Grow on Your Tree? Finder by Host Tree
Pick the tree your mushroom grows on or near. You get the species in our encyclopedia whose habitat records name that tree, with the poisonous ones listed first and the guide to that tree linked below. The list shows what your tree can host, and your find still needs identifying on its own features.
This tool narrows what to read. It cannot tell you a mushroom is safe to eat. If someone ate a wild mushroom, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222.
28 species recorded with oak
16 of them are poisonous
Species in our encyclopedia whose habitat names oak. A host tree narrows a list. It never tells you which mushroom you found.
Rule these out first
Beautiful Clavaria
Ramaria formosa
Poisonous
Bitter Beech Bolete
Caloboletus calopus
Poisonous
Bitter Poisonpie
Hebeloma sinapizans
Poisonous
Brawny Bolete
Imperator torosus
Poisonous
Common Earthball
Scleroderma citrinum
Poisonous
Deadly Fibrecap
Inosperma erubescens
Poisonous
Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
Poisonous
Destroying Angel
Amanita bisporigera
Poisonous
Devil's Bolete
Rubroboletus satanas
Poisonous
Fool's Mushroom
Amanita verna
Poisonous
Fool's Webcap
Cortinarius orellanus
Poisonous
Panther Cap
Amanita pantherina
Poisonous
Rosy Bonnet
Mycena rosea
Poisonous
Sulphur Knight
Tricholoma sulphureum
Poisonous
Tiger Knight
Tricholoma pardinum
Poisonous
Western Destroying Angel
Amanita ocreata
Poisonous
Also recorded with oak
Black Truffle
Tuber melanosporum
Choice edible
Bronze Bolete
Boletus aereus
Choice edible
Caesar's Mushroom
Amanita caesarea
Choice edible
Chanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius
Choice edible
Maitake
Grifola frondosa
Choice edible
Porcini
Boletus edulis
Choice edible
White Truffle
Tuber magnatum
Choice edible
Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureus
Caution
The Blusher
Amanita rubescens
Caution
Lion's Mane
Hericium erinaceus
Medicinal
Reishi
Ganoderma sichuanense
Medicinal
Bitter Bolete
Tylopilus felleus
Inedible
How it works
How the list is built
Every species profile has a habitat line that names the trees it grows on or with, such as "under oak and beech". The finder keeps the profiles whose habitat line names your tree as a whole word. So "pine" matches pine woods, yet it skips a longer word that happens to contain those letters, and "ash" never matches "ashy".
Poisonous species come first and sit inside a red border, because the same tree often hosts a choice edible and a deadly species. Oak shows it most clearly, since more than half of the oak species in our index are poisonous. On oak, both root partners and wood-decay fungi fruit around one trunk, so a single tree can give you very different mushrooms.
Some trees return nothing yet because no profile names them, even though their guide describes what grows there. That gap sits in our profiles and says nothing about the forest. The result links the tree's guide either way, so an empty list still gives you somewhere to read.
Each name on the list is a lead to check. Your tree narrows the field, and the cap, gills, stem and spore print still have to match one profile before that name holds. Mushrooms on a living trunk also raise a question about decay in the tree that no species list can answer.
How the oak list was found
- Read the habitat line of all 94 profiles
- Keep the 28 that name oak as a host or habitat tree
- List the 16 poisonous ones first, then the rest by edibility
Limits
What this tool cannot do
- A host tree narrows a list. It never identifies the mushroom in front of you, and it never makes one safe to eat.
- It searches only our encyclopedia, which holds a fraction of the species that grow on any tree.
- It cannot judge your tree's health. Fungus on a living trunk needs an arborist's look.
Questions
Is a mushroom on my tree a sign it is dying?
Not always. Some fungi feed on dead wood or grow with healthy roots, while others decay living wood. Mushrooms growing from a living trunk or exposed roots call for a qualified tree assessment, because only an arborist can judge how far any decay has spread.
Why does maple show no species?
None of our current profiles names maple in its habitat line, so the whole-word match finds nothing. The maple guide still describes what people report on maple. The list fills in as we add profiles that record it.
Can I eat a mushroom because it grew on a tree from the list?
Growing on a listed tree gives you no reason to eat a mushroom, because several poisonous species grow on the same trees as edible ones. Every find still needs a full identification from its own features. If someone has already eaten a wild mushroom, call poison control before symptoms start.
Sources2
- Species habitat records, from each linked species profile Host trees come from the habitat field of each profile, matched as whole words. Checked 2026-10-20.
- Mushrooms on oak, our host tree guide One of the 14 tree guides linked from each result. Checked 2026-10-20.