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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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You can browse the database from the alphabetical list or by going directly to the mushroom records which are listed under the categories poisonous, inedible and edible. You can also search the database based on mushroom name or some property.
Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, I recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Todays mushroom is Gyromitra infula (Hooded false morel). The mushroom is Poisonous. It grows in North America, Europe.
Description: This mushroom occurs in late summer and fall--not in the spring, when other species of Gyromitra can be found. Its broadly lobed cap is usually pinched into two lobes, creating a saddle-shaped appearance. Its color is variable.
Fruiting body occasionally nearly cup-shaped when young, but soon becoming lobed with two prominently raised lobes; bald; loosely wrinkled but usually not not brainlike; varies in color (tan to yellowish brown to reddish brown to dark brown); undersurface whitish to brownish, finely dusted, sometimes ingrown with stem where contact occurs. Stem equal to enlarged at the base, stuffed or hollow, round to compressed, sometimes with a longitudinal fold, surface glabrous to subpubescent, colored like the cap or lighter.
Similar species The deadly poisonous Gyromitra esculenta reminds of this mushroom.
Gyromitra infula on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: 2-8 cm diameter, 2-13 cm tall, including stem
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
