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Family Pluteaceae
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
The Fly Agaric is a large distinctive mushroom, generally common and numerous where it grows, often being found in groups with basidiocarps in all
stages of development. Fully grown, the bright red cap is usually...
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Orange-brown Ringless Amanita (Amanita fulva)
The cap is
tan with a clearly lined margin. The gills are white and free
from the stem. The stem is white, relatively long and thin,
often hollow, and without a ring. The sack-like folva is patchy
white with...
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European Blusher (Amanita rubescens)
The European
blusher has a reddish-brown cap, usually elliptical, and strewn
with small cream-colored warts. It is sometimes covered with an
ochre-yellow flush which can be washed by the rain. The flesh of
the mushroom is white, becoming...
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Family Agaricaceae
Parasol Mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)
The Parasol
Mushroom is one of the more distinctive members of the
Lepiota family. Defining features include the little bump in
the center of the mature cap; the brownish scales; the slender
(not swollen) stem that is covered with small...
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Common
Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)
The common puffball is a moderate
sized puffball mushroom with a round fruiting body, tapering to
a wide stalk. It is off-white with a top covered in short, spiny
bumps or "jewels". When mature, they become brown and a...
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Family Strophariaceae
Verdigris Agaric (Stropharia aeruginosa)
This fungi
has a campanulated cap and is a striking blue-green colored
gluten with white flecky scales. The margin is fringed with a
white veil. In heavy rain the gluten and scales often wash off
leaving the surface a pale yellow in color. The...
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Family Physalacriaceae
Porcelain Mushroom (Oudemansiella
mucida)
The Porcelain Mushroom is specific
to beech wood. It appears in autumn on dead trunks and on fallen
branches, and occasionally it also grows on living trees...
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Boletes (Order Boletales)
The Boletales are an order of Agaricomycetes, containing a large number of
species with a diverse array of fruiting body types. The Boletes are the best known members of this group, and until recently, the Boletales were thought to
only contain Boletes. The Boletales are now known to contain distinct groups of Agarics, Gasteromycetes,
and other fruiting body types.
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Earthballs (Family Sclerodermataceae)
Leopard-spotted Earthball (Scleroderma areolatum)
Thin skin,
small brownish scales over a yellowish background. It has a
blackish interior. Symbiotic with hardwoods and conifers in
moist, shady woods. But also possibly using decomposing dead or
decaying organic material, since...
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Boletes (Family Boletaceae)
Bay Boletus (Boletus badius)
It derives
its common name from the bay or chestnut colored cap, which is
almost spherical in young specimens before broadening and
flattening out. The cap is sticky or slimy when fresh and young,
but soon dry and finely velvety or...
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Penny Bun (Boletus edulis)
The color is generally
reddish-brown fading to white in areas near the margin, and
continues to darken as it matures. The stipe, or stem is
club-shaped, or bulges out in the middle. It is finely
reticulate on the upper portion, but smooth or...
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Stinkhorns (Order Phallales)
The Phallales are an
order of fungi that is more or less synonymous with the
Gomphoid-phalloid clade. The order contains two families,
the Claustulaceae and the Phallaceae, which
collectively contain 26 genera and 88 species.
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Stinkhorns (Family
Phallaceae)
Common Stinkhorn (Phallus
impudicus)
Sometimes called the Witch's Egg, the immature stinkhorn is
whitish or pinkish and egg-shaped. On the outside is a thick
whitish volva, also known as the peridium, covering the
olive-colored gelatinous gleba. It is the...
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Dog Stinkhorn (Mutinus caninus)
This small member of the
Phallaceae family emerges from an off-white egg-like
fruiting body that lies half buried in leaf litter on the
woodland floor. White mycelial cords (rhizomorphs), are often
visible beneath...
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