about fungi occurring on all continents
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The Phallus impudicus, commonly known as a common bruise, is a widespread mushroom recognizable due to its unpleasant odor and its phallic shape in the mature, the last feature giving rise to several names in the seventeenth-century England. Common...
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Pleurotus ostreatus, the Oyster Mushroom, is a common edible mushroom. It was first cultivated in Germany as a subsistence measure during World War and is now grown commercially around the world for food. It is related to the similarly cultivated ki...
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Tricholomopsis rutilans, known by the unusual but apt common name of Plums and Custard or, less commonly Red-haired agaric, is a species of gilled mushroom found across Europe and North America. The cap is convex and 4–10 cm (1.5–4 in) across. The...
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Stropharia aeruginosa - commonly known as the verdigris agaric, is a medium-sized green, slimy woodland mushroom, found on lawns, mulch and woodland from spring to autumn. The edibility of this mushroom is controversial - some sources claim that it...
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Calocera viscosa - commonly known as the yellow stagshorn, is a jelly fungus, characterized by their unique "tuning fork" basidia. It has bright orange, yellow or occasionally white branching basidiocarps, which are somewhat gelatinous in texture an...
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Phlebia radiata - Mushroom does not produce a hat, it reaches up to 10 mm thick; young sporocarps are pale pink, orange-red, ocher-yellow, and with age they fade and get a flesh-colored color; it is flat, loosely attached to the ground, sometimes...
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Suillus cavipes- Hat diameter 40 to 100 mm, lemon-yellow, cinnamon-brown to orange-brown, also reddish to vinegar, first convex to obtusely conical, later flattened, concave, often with a sharp umbo. Dry surface, coarse-textured. The shore is often...
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Pleurocybella porrigens - Hat without the side side attached to the ground; reaches a diameter of 25 - 100 mm, white, cream; hemispherical, spatulate, fan-shaped, muszlowaty; the surface is short, felted hair, as the fruiting body grows naked, more...
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Urnula craterium - Mushroom 20-110 mm tall; 20-70 mm wide, consisting of a handle and bowl. Elongated, slightly spherical, almost closed, it quickly opens to the shape of a urn, a cup; later deeply cup-shaped, tapering more or less smoothly do...
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Boletus queletii- The hat is 50 to 150 mm in diameter, hemispherical, in mature specimens, it is scattered, with age in the middle it is deeply submerged, tanned or wrinkled, first ocrowozółty to brownish, then with a reddish shade, usually brick-re...
