Mushroom Families

Morchellaceae - Morels  - page 1    

A well known family of edibles - Spores located in honeycombed pits.

Yellow Morel - Morchella esculenta {Spring}

 Half Free Morel - Morchella semifera {Spring}

 Veined Cup - Discitis venosa { Summer}

Helvellaceae -  page 1  

Fluted White Helvella - Helvella crispa { Summer - Fall}

Clavariceae - Coral Familiy- page 1

Resembles pieces of underwater coral, club shaped, to many branched.

white, yellow, pink, red, or purple. Most grow on logs and stumps.

Most are edible

  Crown Tipped Coral - Claricorona pyridata  

  Crested Coral - Clavulina cristata

  White Coral - Ramariopsis kunzeil

  White Worm Coral - Clavaria vermicularis

Saracoscyphaceae - Elf Cups - page 1

Small to medium , pink to bright red cups with pale  or white

exterior on short to long stalks. Grown on wood.

 Stalked Scarlet Cup - Sarcoscpylylla rufa

Pezizaceae - pages 1- 2

 Hairy Rubber Cup - Galiella rufa

 Reciurved Cup - Peziza replana

 Eyelash Cup - Scullinia scutella

 Pink Crown - Sarcophaera crassa

Xylariaceae - Flask Family - page 2

Develope enclosed fertile surfaces witsch are coposed of

microscopic fask- shaped bodies (perititieia) fiilled spore sacs.

Dead Man's Finger's - Xylaria polymorpha

 Carbon Antlers - Xylaria  hypoxylon

 Hypoxylon multiforme

Jelly Fungi -

Gelatinous , soft, vary in shape- bloblike, brainlike, earlike,

leflike, Some are transparent or colored. None are poisonous,

some are popular edibles.

Auriculariaceae - page 2

 Tree Ear - Auricularia auricula

Dacrymycetacea- page 2

 Club like Tuning Fork - Calocera cornea

 Fan- shaped Jelly Fungus - Dacryopinax spatulata

 Witche's Butter - Tremella mesenerica

  Snow Fungus

 Jellied False Coral - Tremellodendron

 Black Jelly Drops

Chanterellaceae - Chanterelle Family - page 3

Well known edibles. Most are orangish, or yellow. most are convex,

or vase shaped. All lack true gills. They produce spores on rides or

on a smooth surface.  Most live on the ground. Season summer.

 Chanterelle - Cantherelus cibariius

Trumpet Chanterelle - Canthrellus tuberiformis

 Smooth Chanterelle - Canthrellus lateritius

 Cinnabar -red Chanthrelle - Cantherellus cinnabarinus

Coprinaceae -page 3

 Orange mat Coprinus - Coprinus radians

 Mica Cap - Coprinus micacaeus

 Japanese Umbrella Inky - Coprinus plicatilis

 Shaggy Mane - Coprinus comatus

 Non Inky Coprinus - Coprinus diseminatus

 Artist Crumble Cap - Psathyrella dileanata

 Clustered Psthyrella - Psathyrella hydrophila

 Troop Crumble Cap - Psuedoprinus disseminatus

Cortinariaceae - Cortinarius Family -- page 4

The largest of the brown - gilled mushrooms, most live in

forest or wooodland in micorrhizal relationship with trees.

Many are poisonous, and some are deadly.

 Silvery Violet Cort - Cortinarius albovilaceus

 Straw Colored Fiberhead - Inocybe lacera

 Torn Fiberhead - Inocybe lacera

 Earthblade Fiberhead - Inocybe geophylla

 Lilac Fiberhead - Inocybe lilacina

  Poison Pie - Hebeloma crustuliniforme

Corticiaceae - Crust Family - page 4

 Coral Pink Merulius - Merulius incarnatum

 Trembling Merulius - Merulius tremellosum

 Red - tree Brain - Penifora rufa

 Buff Crust - Corticum bobycinum

Hymenochaetaceae - page 4

Reddish Brown Crust - Hymenocaeate badio- ferriginea

Steraceae - Parchment Family - pages 4-5

Looks like polypores , but spores are produced on the

surface , instead of the pores, or tubes on the upper

surface like polyppores. Most live on dead wood, and

occur in late summer or fall.

Crowded Parchment - Stereum complicatum

 False Turkey Tail - Strereum ostrea

Crepidotaceae Crepitotus Family - page 5

Primarily tropical mushrooms, brown spored.  Typically

grows on wood and wood debris.

 Fringed Tubaria - Tubaria furfuraceae

 Jelly Crep - Crepidotus mollis 

 Flat Crep -Crepidotus applantus

Plutaceae - Pluteus Family - page 5

Salmon - brownish spores - and usually have

distinctive free gills.

 Yellow Roof - Pluteus admirabilis

 Senna Roof - Pluteus chrosophsophaeus

 Fawn Mushroom - Pluteus cervinus

 Golden Granular Pluteus - Pluteus aurantiifosus

 Tree Volvariella - Volvariella bomycina

Hygrophoraceae- Waxy Cap Family - page 5-6. 

Mostly small, waxy , brightly colored. White spored. On

moss, on the ground in wet open places. Late spring ,

Late fall. The caps are usually conical to convex, thick

fleshed, most are waxy.

Chanterelle Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus cantharellus

Witches' Hat - Hygrophorus conicus

 Golden Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus flavescens

 White Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus eberueus

 Fading Scarlet Waxy Cap - Hygrophorus mininatus

Hydaneceae - Tooth Fungus - page 6.

Produce spores on teeth instead of gillls. The spines -like

teeth hang towards the ground. Some grow on the the

ground and some trees. Mosty in summer and fall.

Lion's Mane - Hericum ericum

 Comb Tooth - Hericum ramosum

Red Juice Tooth - Hydnellum peckii

Kidney -shaped Tooth - Mychorrhaphium adjustium

Ochre -spreading Tooth - Steccherium ochraceum

Entolomataceae - Entoloma Family - page 6

A wide ranged family that varies with sizes and shapes.

All have attached gills, pink to salmond spore print.

All live the ground, or rotten wood - spring to fall.

 Sweet Bread Mushroom - Clitocybe prunulus

 Lead Poisoner - Entoloma sinuatum

 Straight Stalked Entoloma - Entoloma strictius

. Aborted Entoloma - Entoloma abortivum

Early Spring Entoloma - Entoloma vernum

Slime Molds

Go through transformations -often in 24 hours. Slimy and

moldlike, when they first emerge. Soon they change color

shape and texture as they develope. They can be found     

anywhere there is moisture, especially on wet decayed logs

and leaves.

Reticulariaceae - Page 6

 Red Raspberry Slime - Tubifera ferruginosa

 Wolf's Milk Slime - Lycogala epiderum

Trichiaceae -page 7

  Carnival Candy Slime - Archyria denuta

Physacaceae page 7

 Many -headed Slime - Physarum polycephalum

 Scrambled Egg Slime - Fuligo septica

Stemonitaceae page 7

 Tapioca Slime - Brefeldia maxima

Bolbitiaceae - Bolbitious Family - page 7

Common lawn and mulch fungi that seems to come up

overnight and are gone by afternoon.

Yellow Bolbitiious - Bolbitius vitellum

 Maple Agrocybe - Agrocybe acericola

 White Dunce Cap - Conocybe lactea

 Hard Agrocybe - Agrocybe dura

 Spring Agrocybe - Agrocybe praecox

Boletiaceae - Bolete Family - pages 7-8

Fleshy , stalked mushrooms that grow on the ground, instead

of gills they have spongelike tube layers. The spore print is

olive brown- pinkish, yellowish or black. Many are edible,

only a few are poisonous.

Indigo Milky - Lactarius indigo

 Peppery Milky -Lactarius piperatus

 Curry Milkcap - Lactarius  champhoratus

 Gold Drop Milky - Lactarius chysorrheus

 Hygrophorus Milky - Lactarius hygorphoroides

 Deceptive Milky - Lactarius deceptivus

 Almond Scented Russula - Russula laurocerasi

 Fragile Russula - Russula fragilis 

 Variable Russula - Russula variata 

 Purple Bloom Russula - Russula maria 

 Golden Brittle Gill - Russula flavipes

 White Brittle Gill - Russula albidula

 Scallop Brittle Gill - Russula pectinoides 

Tricolomataceae -Tricoloma  family - pages 8-11

A large and diverse group. Most have white or pale

spore prints, attached gills. Most are edible and

some are poisonous.

Violet Collybia - Collybia incephala

 Little Brown Collybia - Collybia alkaliverens

 Zone Cap Collybia - Collybia zonata

Oak Loving Collybia - Colllybia dryophila

Clustered Collybia - Collybia acervata 

Tuberous Collybia - Collybia tuberosa

 Hairy  Stalked Collybia - Collybia spongiosa 

 Collybia subnuda 

 Fairy Ring Mushroom - Marasmius ordeades

 Fetid Marasmius - Marasmius foetidum 

 Pinwheel Marasmius - Maramius rotula 

Mycena filopes 

 Orange Mycena - Mycena l eatina   

 Coral Spring Mycena acicula  

 Walnut Mycena - Mycena latopallens

 Common Mycena - Mycena galericulata

 Bleeding Mycena - Mycena haematopsis

 Blue Mycena - M. subcaeulea

 Mycena nivepes

Yellow Stalked Fairy Helmet - Mycena epipterygia

Yellow white Melanuleuca - Meanuleuca alboflvida

 Deep Root- Oudemansiella radiata

 Elm Oyster - Hypsizgus tessulatus

 Leaf like Oyster - Hobenbuebelia petaloides           

 White Oysterette - Cheimonophllina candidissimus

 Orange Mock Oyster - Phyllostopsis nidulaland

 Oyster Mushroom - Pleurtus osteratus

 Ruddy Panus - Panus rudis

 Smooth Panus -Panus conchatus

 Wood Clitocybe - Clitocybe ectypoides

 Purple Gilled Laccaria - Laccaria ochropurpea

 Common Laccaria - Laccaria laccata

 Chicken Mushroom - Laetiporus sulpureus

 Xeromophallina kaufmanii

 Rooting Collybia - Xerula fururacea

 Ringless Honey Mushroom - Armillaria tabescens

 Blewit - Clitocybe nuda

Polyporaceae - Polypore family - Pages 11-13

Have their microscopic spore producing basidia located on the 

inside walls of tubes. Most are fleshy- tough to woody, are   

shelf like or stalkless. Many survive the frost, and are perennial.

Some are choice edibles.

 Dryad's Saddle - Polyporus squamosus

 Umbrella Polypore - Polyporus umrellatus

 White Cheese Polypore- Tyomyces chioneus

 Blue Cheese Polypore - Tyomyces caesius

 Red - belted Polypore - Fomistopsis pinicola

 Cracked Cap Polypore - Phellinus rimosus

 Artist's Conk - Gandoderma applantum

 Ling Chih - Gandoderma lucidum

 Violet Toothed Polypore- Trichaptum biformis

 Smoky Polypore- Bjerkandreea adjusta

 Shiny Cinnamon Polypore - Colticia cinnamonea

 Elegant Polypore - Polyporus varius

 Rooting Polypore - Polyporus radiactus

 Beech Bracket

 Orange Poria - Poria spissa

 Little Nest Polypore -Poronidulus conchifer

 Black Footed Polypre - Polyporus badius

 Turkeytail - Trametes versicolor

 Yellow-red Gilled Polypore  - Gloephyllum sepairum

 Resinous Polypore - Iscyhnoderma resionosum

 Hen of the Woods- Grifolia frondosa

 Pendulus - disk- Polypore - Porodisculus pendulus

 Tinder Polypore - Fomes foementarius

 Fringed Polypore - Polyporus arcularis

 Milk - white Polypore - Irpex lacteus

 Marshmallow Polypore -Spongipellus unicolor

 Winter Polypore - Polyporus brunalis

 Mossy Maple Polypore - Cerrena unicolor

 Cinnabar - red Polypore - Polyporus cinnabarnis

Boletaceae - Bolete Family - page 14

Fleshy , stalked mushrooms that grown on the ground.

Instead of gills they have sponglike tube layers. The
spore print is olive - brown, pinkish, yellowish or black.

Many are edible, only a few are poisonous.

 Violet Gray Bolete - Trilopilus plumbeoviolaceus

Two Colored Bolete - Boletus bicolor

Chestnut Bolete -

 Summer Bolete

 Ornate Stalked Bolete - Boletus ornatipes

 Old Man of the Woods - Strobilomyces flocopus

 Red Gyroporus - Gyroporus purprinus

 Red Dot - Boletus rubropuntus

 Bitter Bolete - Tylopilus felleus

Bay Bolete - Boletus badius

Amanitaceae - Amanita family - pages 14-16

Most live on the ground in the woods. All develope

from an egglike enclosure, that leaves patches on

the cap, and a cup at the base of the stem. All have

white spore prints. They have a mychorrizal relationship

with trees. Some are deadly like the Destroying Angel.

 False Caesar's Mushroom - Amanita parcivolvata

 Blusher - Amanita rubesens

 Turnip Bulp Amanita

 Powder Cap Amanita - Amanita farinosa

 Booted Amanita - Amanita thurnata

 Destroying Angel -Amanita virosa

 Amanita  bisporgerea

 Cleft Foot Amanita - Amanita brunescens

 Gemmed Amanita - Amanita gemnata

 Citrin Amanita - Amanita citrinia

Yellow orange Fly Agaric - Amanita muscaria var. formosa

Grissete- Amanita vaginata var. vaginata

 Tawny Grisette - Amanita fulva

 Yellow Patches - Amanita flavacina

 Strangulated Amanita - Amanita inaurita

Agaricaceae -Agaricus family - page 16.

Most live in forest, while others in grassy areas, compost and

roadsides. They are decomposers of organic material. Some

are edible, while some are poisonous.

 Meadow Mushroom - Agaricus campestris

 Horse Mushroom- Agaricus arvensis

 Reddening Lepiota - Lepiota americana

 Smooth Lepiota - Lepiota naucina

Stinkhorns- page 16

Fungus that you usually smell before you see them.

They begin as egglike structures (peridium)

A spore mass  (gleba) developes in a green slime

that becomes strongly fetid . The spore mass is atop

stalklike strucuture or arms. The odor attacts insects,

that in turn disperse their spores.

Phallaceae - page 16

Dog Stinkhorn- Mutinus caninus

Devil's Stinkhorn-Phallus rubicunda

Lycoperaceae - Puffballs - pages 16-17

Have a spore mass (gleba) that is solid and white at

first , and becomes powdery as the spores mature. The

spore are dispearsed through a hole at the tope or

through a disintegration of the upper wall.

193. Granual Puffball -  Archnion album

194. Spiny Puffball- Lycoperdon echatum

195. Gem-studded Puffball- Lcoperdon perlatum

196. Pear-shaped Puffball - Lycoperdon pyriforme

Geastraceae - Earthstars- page 17

 Beaked Earth Star- Geastrum pectinatum

Nidulariaceae - Bird's Nest Family - page 17

The egg are little seed like cases , called petidioles,

that contain parts of the spore mass or gleba. The

splash cups disperse the eggs when raindrops fall in.

 Splash Cups - Cyathus striatus

Strophariaceae - Stropharia family - page 17

This is a principle family of the hallucinogenic

mushrooms, but only a few are hallucinogenic,

some are edible, and are decomposers.  They

grow on the ground, in lawns, humus, and dung.

 Sharp Scaly Pholiota - Pholiota squarroides

Scaly Pholiota - Pholiota squarrosa

Paxilliaceae -Paxillus family - page 17

 Poison Paxillus, Brim Cap - Paxillius involutus

Schizophyllaceae

Common Split Gill- Schizophyllum commune