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• mushroom go
  mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
  
• mushroom go
  common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
  
• toadstool go
  common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)
  
• horse mushroom, Agaricus arvensis go
  coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and a broad white cap
  
• meadow mushroom, field mushroom, Agaricus campestris go
  common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil
  
• royal agaric, Caesar's agaric, Amanita caesarea go
  widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric
  
• false deathcap, Amanita mappa go
  agaric often confused with the death cup
  
• fly agaric, Amanita muscaria go
  poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills
  
• death cap, death cup, death angel, destroying angel, Amanita phalloides go
  extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base
  
• blusher, blushing mushroom, Amanita rubescens go
  yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched
  
• destroying angel, Amanita verna go
  fungus similar to Amanita phalloides
  
• chanterelle, chantarelle, Cantharellus cibarius go
  widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma
  
• floccose chanterelle, Cantharellus floccosus go
  a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet
  
• pig's ears, Cantharellus clavatus go
  an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound
  
• cinnabar chanterelle, Cantharellus cinnabarinus go
  mushroom with a distinctive pink to vermillion fruiting body
  
• jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-o-lantern, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens go
  a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks
  
• inky cap, inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus atramentarius go
  having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured
  
• shaggymane, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom, Coprinus comatus go
  common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
  
• milkcap, Lactarius delicioso go
  edible mushroom
  
• fairy-ring mushroom, Marasmius oreades go
  mushroom that grows in a fairy ring
  
• oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, oyster agaric, Pleurotus ostreatus go
  edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
  
• olive-tree agaric, Pleurotus phosphoreus go
  red luminescent mushroom of Europe
  
• Pholiota astragalina go
  a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk
  
• Pholiota aurea, golden pholiota go
  a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast
  
• Pholiota destruens go
  a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap
  
• Pholiota flammans go
  a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk
  
• Pholiota flavida go
  a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground
  
• nameko, viscid mushroom, Pholiota nameko go
  one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan
  
• Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa go
  a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks
  
• Pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota go
  a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales
  
• Pholiota squarrosoides go
  a pale buff fungus with tawny scales
  
• Stropharia ambigua go
  a gilled fungus with a long stalk and a yellow slimy cap from which fragments of the broken veil hang
  
• Stropharia hornemannii go
  a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap
  
• Stropharia rugoso-annulata go
  a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk
  
• Entoloma lividum, Entoloma sinuatum go
  a deadly poisonous agaric
  
• Entoloma aprile go
  an agaric with a dark brown conical cap
  
• Chlorophyllum molybdites go
  a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color
  
• lepiota go
  any fungus of the genus Lepiota
  
• parasol mushroom, Lepiota procera go
  edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores
  
• blewits, Clitocybe nuda go
  edible agaric that is pale lilac when young
  
• sandy mushroom, Tricholoma populinum go
  an edible agaric that fruits in great clusters (especially in sandy soil under cottonwood trees)
  
• Tricholoma pessundatum go
  a mildly poisonous agaric with a viscid reddish brown cap and white gills and stalk
  
• Tricholoma sejunctum go
  an agaric with a cap that is coated with dark fibrils in the center and has yellowish margins
  
• man-on-a-horse, Tricholoma flavovirens go
  an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center
  
• Tricholoma venenata go
  a poisonous white agaric
  
• Tricholoma pardinum go
  a poisonous agaric having a pale cap with fine grey fibrils
  
• Tricholoma vaccinum go
  an agaric with a cap that is densely covered with reddish fibrils and pale gills and stalk
  
• Tricholoma aurantium go
  an orange tan agaric whose gills become brown by maturity
  
• Pluteus aurantiorugosus go
  an agaric with a brilliant scarlet cap and a slender stalk
  
• Pluteus magnus, sawdust mushroom go
  an edible agaric found in piles of hardwood sawdust
  
• deer mushroom, Pluteus cervinus go
  a small edible agaric with a slender stalk
  
• straw mushroom, Chinese mushroom, Volvariella volvacea go
  small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem
  
• Volvariella bombycina go
  a mushroom with a dry yellowish to white fibrillose cap
  
• Clitocybe clavipes go
  an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base
  
• Clitocybe dealbata go
  a small poisonous agaric
  
• Clitocybe inornata go
  a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled
  
• Clitocybe robusta, Clytocybe alba go
  a large white agaric
  
• Clitocybe irina, Tricholoma irinum, Lepista irina go
  an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks
  
• Clitocybe subconnexa go
  an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters
  
• winter mushroom, Flammulina velutipes go
  an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are
  
• waxycap go
  any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance
  
• Cortinarius armillatus go
  a fungus with large tawny caps and pale cinnamon gills and a red band of veil around the stalk
  
• Cortinarius atkinsonianus go
  an edible fungus with a slimy viscid cap that is initially yellow but turns olive and then tawny
  
• Cortinarius corrugatus go
  a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap
  
• Cortinarius gentilis go
  a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk
  
• Cortinarius mutabilis, purple-staining Cortinarius go
  a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface
  
• Cortinarius semisanguineus go
  a fungus with a dry brown cap and rusty red gills and a yellowish stalk
  
• Cortinarius subfoetidus go
  a fungus with a sticky lavender cap and stalk that whitish above and covered with a silky lavender sheath
  
• Cortinarius violaceus go
  a fungus that is violet overall with a squamulose cap
  
• Gymnopilus spectabilis go
  a fungus with a brownish orange fruiting body and a ring near the top of the stalk
  
• Gymnopilus validipes go
  a poisonous fungus with a dry cap and a cortina that does not leave much of a ring on the robust stalk
  
• Gymnopilus ventricosus go
  a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest
  
• shoestring fungus go
  any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples
  
• Armillaria caligata, booted armillaria go
  fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk
  
• Armillaria ponderosa, white matsutake go
  a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages
  
• Armillaria zelleri go
  a large fungus with viscid cap that dries and turns brown with age
  
• honey mushroom, honey fungus, Armillariella mellea go
  a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall