Welcome to Mushroom World
Step into the fascinating world of mushrooms with Mushroom World – your go-to resource for fungi information. Our site offers clear information and beautiful images of mushrooms.
If you're curious about what fungi actually are and how they differ from plants and animals, be sure to visit our what are fungi? page for an easy-to-understand explanation.
Since there are thousands of known species of mushrooms, we have limited our database to the most common ones. New species are also continuously added to the site.
Come and explore the wonders of mushrooms with us. We hope you find our site informative, inspiring, and a valuable resource on your journey of mushroom discovery.
What you can do on Mushroom World
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Explore mushrooms from the alphabetical list or search by name or properties.
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Try our identification quiz and see how many mushrooms you recognise. Each run gives you new questions.
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Today's Mushroom
A quick highlight from our database
Today's mushroom is Agaricus sylvicola (Wood Mushroom). It grows in Europe, North America.
Dimensions: Cap 6-14 cm diameter, stem 5-8 cm tall * 1-1.5 cm diameter
Description:
Agaricus sylvicola, commonly known as the Wood Mushroom, is a medium or large agaric with a creamy white cap, pinkish or chocolate-coloured gills, a stem with a ring and a bulbous base. The mushroom grows in trooping groups on soil in coniferous woods, favouring spruce.
Cap cream-coloured, bruising ochraceous and generally yellowing with age. It is at first sub-spherical or ovoid, becoming broadly convex and flattened. The flesh is white, unchanging and firm. Gills free from the stem, crowded, pinkish at first but turn greyish-pink and then chocolate brown as the spores mature. Stem white at first and turns yellow-grey as the fruit body matures with a small bulb at the base. The ring is single, large, pendulous, superior and attached high on the stem. Spore print chocolate brown.
Microscopic Features: The spores are ellipsoidal to ovoid in shape, exhibiting a smooth surface and measuring approximately 5-6.5 µm in length and 3.5-4.5 µm in width.
Agaricus sylvicola on the www.first-nature.com web site.
Agaricus sylvicola on the mykoweb.com web site.
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database for more detailed photographs and additional information.
Many mushrooms are poisonous, and some can be lethally toxic. Distinguishing between edible and poisonous mushrooms can be very challenging. Therefore, we strongly advise against consuming wild mushrooms. This website does not contain any information about the edibility or toxicity of mushrooms.
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