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Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom cultivated worldwide for food. The names white button, cremini, and portobello are commonly used for cultivated forms or market stages associated with this species. It is saprotrophic, obtaining nutrients from decomposing organic material, and is...

Known as birch polypore, this species grows exclusively on birch trees; fragments were found among the possessions of Ötzi the Iceman, dated to around 3300 BCE.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Phlebia radiata, known as the wrinkled crust, is a crust fungus in the family Meruliaceae that decomposes dead wood. Its fruiting body forms a thin, waxy crust with radiating wrinkles and colors ranging from orange to pink, and it causes white rot in the wood it colonizes. The species grows on both...

Mycena galericulata, the common bonnet, is a saprotrophic mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It forms gray-brown to gray fruiting bodies, often in groups, on stumps, fallen branches, logs, and other dead wood of broad-leaved and coniferous trees. The species occurs across the Northern Hemisphere and...

Stereum hirsutum, often called hairy curtain crust or yellow stereum, is a saprotrophic crust fungus that decomposes dead wood. It forms thin, leathery, overlapping brackets or spreading crusts, with zoned, hairy upper surfaces in yellow, orange, ochre, or brown and a smooth underside that lacks the...

Bjerkandera adusta, the smoky polypore, is a saprotrophic bracket fungus that grows on dead hardwood and is distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Its thin, overlapping, shelf-like caps are pale to butterscotch on top, while the pore surface is smoky gray to black and may darken when bruised, h...

Crepidotus mollis, commonly known as the peeling oysterling, is a small bracket-shaped fungus that grows on decaying hardwood in Europe and North America. It has soft, gelatinous flesh, a fan- to kidney-shaped cap, and no true stem, attaching directly to its substrate. The cap cuticle can be peeled...

Tubaria furfuracea, commonly called the scurfy twiglet, is a small brown saprotrophic mushroom and one of the most frequently encountered fungi in Europe and North America. It fruits in clusters on wood chips, garden mulch, and woody debris, especially during cooler months, and is recognized by its...