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Two cinnamon-brown Cortinarius cinnamomeus mushrooms with slender yellowish stems growing among green moss.
poisonous mushrooms
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. Stump puffball 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. honey mushroom Cluster of oyster cap mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) growing without stems on decaying wood, showing layered, pale caps and gills against a rough, natural background. Scaly pholiota
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Two cinnamon-brown Cortinarius cinnamomeus mushrooms with slender yellowish stems growing among green moss.
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Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)
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Agaricales: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Video and links added. May 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Backyard Nature - The Gill Fungi. Feb 22, 2018
Mentioned the oldest known Agaricales mushroom. Revised taxonomy. Aug 07, 2017
Added images of representative species. Aug 07, 2017
Replaced photograph. Jan 11, 2013
Added images of Cortinarius cinnamomeus, Lepiota rhacodes, Psilocybe, Mycena leaiana, Pleurotus ostreatus, and Russula mariae. Feb 16, 2010
Article revised and updated. Jul 17, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jan 22, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 23, 1999
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