Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
The Fried Chicken Mushroom (Lyophyllum decastes) is a popular, choice edible basidiomycete fungus famous for erupting in massive, dense bouquets of conjoined mushrooms along roadsides, path edges, and disturbed woodland soils. It earns its delightful common name from...
Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
The Bulbous Honey Fungus (Armillaria gallica) is a famous, widespread basidiomycete fungus renowned for producing delicious honey-colored mushrooms with distinctively bulbous stem bases. It shot to worldwide scientific fame in 1992 when a single clonal subterranean...
Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
The Ringless Honey Mushroom (Desarmillaria caespitosa, formerly Armillaria tabescens) is a prolific, wood-decaying basidiomycete fungus famous for erupting in spectacular, massive clusters containing dozens to hundreds of conjoined honey-colored caps around oak stumps...
Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
The Scalycap (Pholiota squarrosa), often called the Shaggy Scalycap, is a visually dramatic wood-decaying basidiomycete mushroom native to northern temperate forests worldwide. Emerging in magnificent, dense bouquets at the bases of living and dead hardwood trees, it...
Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
Nameko (Pholiota microspora, historically known as Pholiota nameko) is a beloved wood-decaying basidiomycete mushroom native to the broadleaf temperate mountain forests of East Asia. Globally celebrated in Japanese culinary tradition as a prized ingredient in miso...