Agaricales: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	gill fungi • gill fungus • agaric

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Two cinnamon-brown Cortinarius cinnamomeus mushrooms with slender yellowish stems growing among green moss.

white button mushroom

Two shaggy mane mushrooms, Coprinus comatus, with tall, white, shaggy caps and slender stems growing among green foliage on the forest floor.

Two Amanita pantherina mushrooms with brown caps covered in white spots grow among moss and fallen leaves.

Close-up of several shiitake mushrooms, showing their light brown caps and textured stems.

Cluster of oyster cap mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) growing without stems on decaying wood, showing layered, pale caps and gills against a rough, natural background.

poisonous mushrooms

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oyster mushroom Agaricaceae Amanitaceae Marasmiaceae Pholiota Lycoperdaceae Pleurotus lampas jack-o’-lantern oyster cap bird’s nest fungus Polyporales stinkhorn Boletales

Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)

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