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 Suillus bovinus (Euro Cow Bolete). The mushroom is Edible. It grows in Europe and Asia.
Description: This usually small, orange-rusty brown bolete, with it's convex to flat cap and short, ringless stem, is notable for it's compound pores: the olive-green pore layer has an outer layer of coarse; angular pores and an inner layer of fine pores.
Cap ochraceous or pinkish clay, more pallid at margin; convex or bun-shaped, smooth, sticky or viscid when damp. Flesh white with pinkish clay tinge, thick and soft. Pores at first pallid olive or buff, becoming more ochraceous with age, angular, compound, unequal, large. Tubes grayish with vinaceous tinge, more or less decurrent. Spores brownish olive. Stem pallid yellowish sienna, more or less equal or tapering at base. Ring absent.
Suillus bovinus on the www.first-nature.com web site.
Dimensions: Cap 3-10 cm diameter, stem 4-6 cm tall * 0.5-1 cm thick
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
