Welcome to Mushroom World

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, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.

Today's Mushroom

Today's mushroom is Auriscalpium vulgare (Pinecone Tooth). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in North America, Europe.

Description: This mushroom is small to long medium sized, with a brown cap attached at one side or off center of the stem. The long, slender, stem rises from decaying pine cones.

Cap flat to rounded. Upper side brown to dark purplish brown, covered with dark brown fibrils. Under side spiny. Flesh thin, flexible. Spines light to dark brown. Stem brown, hairy, rigid, joined laterally to the cap, swollen towards the base.

Auriscalpium vulgare on the First Nature Web site.
Auriscalpium vulgare on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.

Dimensions: Cap 1-2 cm diameter; stem 2-6 cm tall * 0.1-0.2 cm diameter

If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.