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

Today's Mushroom

Today's mushroom is Calocybe persicolor (Pink Lawn Trich). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in North America, Europe.

Description: Calocybe persicolor is a small pink-capped mushroom with white gills that can be found in grassy meadows, fields, or on lawns from spring to autumn. It is less frequently found in open grasslands.

Cap convex to umbonate, smooth fleshy and pink coloured. It has a somewhat irregular margin and is covered with whitish dust or bloom. The flesh is white with pink tinge beneath cuticle. Gills are white, crowded, sinuate and notched. Stem pallid similarly colored as the cap. Smooth, fleshy, tapers slightly upwards.

Similar species Calocybe carnea is less dull without the hairy stem base.

Dimensions: Cap 3-5 cm diameter, stem 3-5 cm tall * 0.3-0.8 cm diameter

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