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Mycena chlorophos is a small bioluminescent mushroom recorded in subtropical and tropical parts of Asia and the Pacific. Its pale fruiting bodies emit greenish light, particularly from the gills, through a fungal luciferin and luciferase reaction that produces light with little heat. It grows on dec...

Hygrocybe psittacina, commonly known as the parrot waxcap, is a small, brightly colored mushroom found in grasslands across Europe and North America. It is characterized by a greenish, viscid cap that changes color to yellow, orange, or pink as it matures. This fungus is an indicator species of high...

Cortinarius violaceus, commonly known as the violet webcap, is a distinctive species of agaric fungus found in forests across Europe and North America. It is characterized by its entirely deep violet coloration, including its cap, stem, and gills, which makes it one of the most recognizable members...

Hygrocybe punicea, known as the crimson waxcap, is a brightly colored grassland mushroom in the waxcap group. It produces a red to crimson cap and similarly colored gills and stem, with a waxy texture typical of Hygrocybe species. In Europe it is associated with old, nutrient-poor grasslands that ha...

Rhodotus palmatus, commonly called the wrinkled peach, is a distinctive pink to peach-colored mushroom that grows as a saprotroph on decaying hardwood. Its cap often has a gelatinous surface marked by pale ridges or a net-like wrinkled pattern, while the stem is similarly pinkish. The species is ass...

Hygrocybe coccinea, commonly called the scarlet waxcap, is a brightly colored waxcap mushroom found in grassland habitats. Its scarlet to red fruiting body and waxy gills are characteristic features, although identification requires attention to form, surface texture, and ecological context when nec...

Pholiota flammans is a brightly colored mushroom in the genus Pholiota, commonly known as the flaming scalycap. It has a yellow to orange cap covered with conspicuous scales and typically grows in clusters on dead conifer wood, including logs and stumps. The species occurs in parts of Europe and Nor...

Panellus stipticus is a small saprotrophic fungus that grows on dead wood and is known for producing greenish bioluminescence in some populations. It occurs in parts of North America, Europe, and Asia, although the strength and presence of its glow vary by region and strain. The species is commonly...

Fomes fomentarius is a perennial bracket fungus commonly called tinder fungus or hoof fungus. It forms hard, hoof-shaped fruiting bodies on the trunks of living or dead broad-leaved trees and has long been used as tinder and as a material for fire-starting. A piece of this fungus was found among the...

Ganoderma applanatum, the artist's conk, is a perennial bracket fungus found worldwide whose white pore surface bruises brown when marked, making it a substrate traditionally used for drawings and engravings.

Fomitopsis pinicola es un hongo poliporo de la familia Fomitopsidaceae que produce pudrición parda en la madera. Forma cuerpos fructíferos perennes, duros y con bandas de color que suelen incluir tonos rojizos, anaranjados, marrones y blancos. Se encuentra asociado principalmente con árboles y tocon...

Helvella crispa, known as the white saddle or white elfin saddle, is an ascomycete fungus associated mainly with woodland habitats in Europe and North America. Its pale fruiting body has a lobed, wavy cap resembling a saddle and a whitish stalk marked by prominent ribs. It commonly appears in autumn...

Hygrocybe virginea is a small white waxcap mushroom associated with short, nutrient-poor grasslands in Europe and other regions where it has been recorded. Its fruit bodies are usually characterized by a white cap, pale gills, and a waxy texture. The species is used in grassland-fungus surveys becau...

Clavaria fragilis is a small white club or coral fungus that produces slender, fragile, spindle-shaped fruit bodies in tufts. It is most often associated with short, unimproved grassland and has been recorded in Europe and North America. The fruit bodies are usually unbranched or only slightly branc...

Phellinus igniarius is a perennial woody bracket fungus that grows parasitically on willows and other hardwood trees. It forms hard, hoof-shaped conks with a brown to black exterior and a pore-bearing underside. The species is inedible and has a long history of use as tinder because its dry tissue c...

Helvella lacunosa, commonly called the elfin saddle, is an ascomycete fungus found in woodlands and other habitats across much of the Northern Hemisphere. Its dark grey to black cap is irregularly lobed and saddle-shaped, while the pale to dark stipe has deep longitudinal grooves and hollow spaces t...

Xeromphalina campanella is a small saprotrophic mushroom that grows in dense clusters on decaying conifer wood. It is found mainly in boreal and temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. The fruiting bodies have thin, yellow to orange-brown, bell-shaped caps and slender stems, giving the species...

Daedalea quercina, known as oak mazegill, is a perennial bracket fungus in the order Polyporales. It usually grows on oak trunks, stumps, or fallen timber and breaks down dead wood as a saprobic fungus. Its thick-walled pores form broad gill-like or maze-like channels on the underside, a feature tha...

Phyllotopsis nidulans is a saprotrophic wood-decaying fungus commonly called the orange oyster or mock oyster. Its bright orange to yellow-orange, fan-shaped caps arise directly from dead wood or have only a short lateral stem, and the crowded gills are also orange. It is widespread in temperate par...

Marasmius rotula, known as the collared parachute or pinwheel mushroom, is a small saprotrophic fungus that grows on dead twigs, leaf litter, and other plant debris in woodland. Its thin whitish cap has a pleated or furrowed margin, and its widely spaced gills attach to a narrow collar around the st...

Trametes hirsuta, known as the hairy bracket or hairy turkey tail, is an annual polypore fungus that grows mainly on dead hardwood. Its fan-shaped to shelf-like fruit bodies are tough and leathery, with a gray to whitish upper surface covered in dense hairs and usually faint concentric zones. The wh...

Phlebiopsis gigantea is a basidiomycete crust fungus and saprotroph that colonizes conifer logs and freshly cut stumps, where it causes white rot. It is notable in forestry because preparations containing the fungus are applied to some conifer stumps, especially in Europe, to colonize the cut surfac...

Inonotus dryadeus, often treated as Pseudoinonotus dryadeus and known as oak bracket or weeping conk, is an inedible bracket fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae. It usually forms at the base or roots of living oak and causes white rot in the root crown and lower trunk, weakening the tree and incre...

Abortiporus biennis, commonly called the blushing rosette, is a variable polypore fungus that may form fan-shaped brackets, rosettes, short-stemmed clusters, or irregular masses. Its pale cap and maze-like pores often turn pinkish or reddish brown when bruised, and fresh specimens may exude red drop...

Inonotus hispidus, known as the shaggy bracket or shaggy polypore, is an annual wood-decay fungus with a coarse, hairy upper surface that ranges from orange or rusty brown to dark brown. It colonizes living broad-leaved trees, especially ash, oak, walnut, apple, plane, and elm, and produces white ro...

Trametes gibbosa, the lumpy bracket or beech bracket, is a tough annual or biennial polypore that grows mainly on dead trunks and stumps of deciduous trees, especially beech. Its pale, uneven upper surface often develops green algal growth, while the underside has elongated, radially arranged pores...

Symphoricarpos albus is a North American shrub producing distinctive waxy white berries that persist through winter, providing critical wildlife forage during cold months though the saponin-containing fruits are toxic to humans.

Mycena inclinata, commonly called the clustered bonnet, is a saprotrophic mushroom that fruits in dense groups on decaying hardwood, especially stumps and fallen trunks. Its small, bell-shaped caps are usually brownish, while the slender stems can show yellow-brown to reddish tones and a distinctly...

Panus conchatus, often called the lilac oysterling, is a tough, fan-shaped wood-decay fungus that grows on dead hardwood. Its fruit bodies have closely spaced gills rather than pores, and the gills may show a pale lilac or violet tint when young before fading toward buff or grayish tones with age. T...