swap_horiz Coprinellus micaceus Alternatives

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Tuber magnatum

The Tuber magnatum, commonly known as the white alba truffle, is a highly prized edible fungus. It’s notable for its int...

Italian Gourmet White Edible

9.8 Brilliant

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Tuber melanosporum

Tuber melanosporum, commonly known as the Périgord black truffle, is a hypogeous mushroom prized for its intense aroma a...

European Gourmet Edible Truffle

9.7 Brilliant

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Boletus edulis

Boletus edulis, or porcini, is a highly valued edible mushroom native to Europe. It forms a mycorrhizal relationship wit...

European Gourmet Edible Bolete

9.5 Brilliant

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Morchella esculenta

Morchella esculenta, commonly known as the morel mushroom, is a highly sought-after edible fungus. Its honeycomb-like ca...

Spring Gourmet North American Edible

9.3 Excellent

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Lentinula edodes

Lentinula edodes, commonly called shiitake, is a wood-decaying fungus prized for its flavor and nutritional value. Origi...

Medicinal Asian Culinary Edible

9.2 Excellent

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Cantharellus cibarius

Cantharellus cibarius, commonly known as the golden chanterelle, is a mycorrhizal fungus valued for its rich flavor and...

European Gourmet Edible Chanterelle

9.2 Excellent

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Hericium erinaceus

Hericium erinaceus, commonly called lion’s mane mushroom, is a unique cultivated fungal species. It's notable for potent...

Medicinal Edible Cultivated Tooth Fungus

9.2 Excellent

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Morchella elata

Morchella elata, commonly known as black morel, is a highly sought-after edible mushroom. It’s notable for its distincti...

Black Spring North American Edible

9.0 Excellent

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Amanita caesarea

Amanita caesarea, commonly known as Caesar’s mushroom, is a distinctive European fungus recognized for its vibrant orang...

European Gourmet Orange Edible

9.0 Excellent

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Grifola frondosa

Grifola frondosa, commonly known as maitake or hen-of-the-woods, is a polypore mushroom associated with oak trees. It’s...

Medicinal Asian Edible Polypore

9.0 Excellent

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Tricholoma matsutake

The Tricholoma matsutake is a highly sought-after mushroom found primarily in East Asian pine forests. It’s notable for...

Gourmet Asian Edible Tricholoma

9.0 Excellent

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Pleurotus ostreatus

Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, is a widely cultivated edible fungus first commercially grown in Germany durin...

Cosmopolitan Culinary Edible Oyster

8.7 Great

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Coprinus comatus

Shaggy ink cap, a widespread edible mushroom notable for autodigesting its gills into black inky fluid through deliquesc...

Cosmopolitan Grassland Edible Inkcap

8.5 Great

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Pleurotus pulmonarius

Pleurotus pulmonarius, the Indian oyster mushroom, is an edible fungus widely distributed across the world and favored f...

Cosmopolitan Culinary Edible Oyster

7.3 Good

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Armillaria mellea

The honey fungus, a parasitic wood-decay species of the Northern Hemisphere and one of the most destructive forest patho...

Cosmopolitan Woodland Edible Parasitic

7.3 Good

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Agaricus bisporus

Agaricus bisporus is the widely cultivated white button mushroom, representing over 90% of the mushroom crop grown in th...

Cosmopolitan Culinary Edible Cultivated

7.1 Good

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Strobilomyces strobilaceus

Strobilomyces strobilaceus, the old man of the woods, is a distinctive bolete native to Europe and North America, covere...

Cosmopolitan Woodland Edible Bolete

6.4 Fair

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Schizophyllum commune

Known as split gill fungus, this species is among the most widely distributed fungi on Earth, remarkable for having over...

Cosmopolitan Bracket Medicinal Edible

5.4 Mediocre

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Laccaria laccata

The deceiver, a common mycorrhizal woodland mushroom widespread across the Northern Hemisphere, notorious for highly var...

Cosmopolitan Woodland Edible Laccaria

5.3 Mediocre

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Leucoagaricus leucothites

Leucoagaricus leucothites is a widespread agaric fungus originally described by Carlo Vittadini in 1826 and noted for re...

Cosmopolitan Grassland Edible Lepiota

4.3 Poor