Covers mushrooms and other non-lichenized fungi that form multicellular fruiting bodies large enough to be seen with the unaided eye.
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baeos,
Baeospora,
balls,
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bear's-head,
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bird's-nest,
black urn,
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(Baeospora myosura)
Substrate: Spruce and Douglas fir cones
Spores: (3--4.5 x 2--3 µm) weakly amyloid spores
(Baeospora myriadophylla)
Substrate: Hardwood logs and stumps
(Coprinopsis atramentaria)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Occurs widely in many natural and disturbed habitats, including gardens and other urban settings
(Mitrula elegans)
Habitat: Occurs on very wet plant litter or even on litter submerged in cold, shallow, running water.
(Hericium abietis)
Distribution: Common in PNW
Habitat: It grows on conifer logs, especially those of fir and hemlock.
(Galerina marginata)
Habitat: It occurs on stumps and logs of conifers and hardwoods, or grows from pieces of buried wood, wood chips, or other woody debris.
(Leccinum scabrum)
Habitat: Common in urban and suburban settings and less so in natural habitats. Occurs with birch.
(Cyathus striatus)
Habitat: It can be common in gardens where woody materials have been added to the planting beds.
Substrate: Cyathus striatus occurs in a number of different habitats on decaying plant materials such as wood chips, small branches, and needles.
(Cyathus striatus)
Habitat: It can be common in gardens where woody materials have been added to the planting beds.
Substrate: Cyathus striatus occurs in a number of different habitats on decaying plant materials such as wood chips, small branches, and needles.
(Psilocybe stuntzii)
Distribution: It is not often found in natural habitats. It is another species apparently confined to the Pacific Coast, particularly the PNW.
Habitat: P. stuntzii occurs frequently in well mulched newly planted lawns, as well as in wood chips and other landscape settings.
(Psilocybe stuntzii)
Distribution: It is not often found in natural habitats. It is another species apparently confined to the Pacific Coast, particularly the PNW.
Habitat: P. stuntzii occurs frequently in well mulched newly planted lawns, as well as in wood chips and other landscape settings.
(Leccinum insigne)
Habitat: Associated with aspen
(Leccinum scabrum)
Habitat: Common in urban and suburban settings and less so in natural habitats. Occurs with birch.
(Boletus rubripes)
Distribution: Widespread but not particularly common in the PNW region.
Habitat: It was described from coastal conifer and mixed forests in California, but in the PNW, occurs in montane conifer forests.
(Gastroboletus turbinatus)
Description: The genus Gastroboletus is used for secotioid fungi that are similar to species of Boletus. Usually a cap is present and typically it is rounded or flattened with the margin turned down. However, in G. ruber (Zeller) Cázares & Trappe (= Truncocolumella rubra Zeller), the cap is so reduced that it looks like a false truffle without a complete peridium. In most Gastroboletus species the tubes are elongated, curved or contorted, and often olive to brown. The stipe is usually short and stout or sometimes forms a columella. G. turbinatus is our most common species, occurring from spring through fall. At first glance, the fruitbody looks like a bolete, such as Boletus chrysenteron---the cap is velvety and brown with yellowish and reddish areas, the stipe is rather short, pointed below, yellowish with small reddish scales and granules, and the pores are rather large, reddish and stain blue. The tubes are long, curved, yellow to greenish yellow and clearly indicate its secotioid nature. The flesh is yellowish, with some red just below the cap cuticle, and the whole interior stains blue after cutting.
Distribution: Broad
(Xerocomellus chrysenteron)
Distribution: Northern hemisphere.
Habitat: Temperate mixed hardwood/coniferous forests.
Substrate: Soil.
(Porphyrellus porphyrosporus)
Distribution: Widespread but not abundant.
Habitat: P. porphyrosporus occurs in coastal and low elevation conifer forests.
(Porphyrellus porphyrosporus)
Distribution: Widespread but not abundant.
Habitat: P. porphyrosporus occurs in coastal and low elevation conifer forests.
(Suillus grevillei)
Habitat: Associated with larch.
(Gastroboletus turbinatus)
Description: The genus Gastroboletus is used for secotioid fungi that are similar to species of Boletus. Usually a cap is present and typically it is rounded or flattened with the margin turned down. However, in G. ruber (Zeller) Cázares & Trappe (= Truncocolumella rubra Zeller), the cap is so reduced that it looks like a false truffle without a complete peridium. In most Gastroboletus species the tubes are elongated, curved or contorted, and often olive to brown. The stipe is usually short and stout or sometimes forms a columella. G. turbinatus is our most common species, occurring from spring through fall. At first glance, the fruitbody looks like a bolete, such as Boletus chrysenteron---the cap is velvety and brown with yellowish and reddish areas, the stipe is rather short, pointed below, yellowish with small reddish scales and granules, and the pores are rather large, reddish and stain blue. The tubes are long, curved, yellow to greenish yellow and clearly indicate its secotioid nature. The flesh is yellowish, with some red just below the cap cuticle, and the whole interior stains blue after cutting.
Distribution: Broad
(Phylloporus rhodoxanthus)
(Suillus viscidus)
Habitat: Associated with larch.
(Suillus cavipes)
Habitat: associated with larch when it occurs in the PNW.
(Suillus cavipes)
Habitat: associated with larch when it occurs in the PNW.
(Suillus umbonatus)
Distribution: It is broadly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
Habitat: It is rather abundant at times in lodgepole pine forests in late summer and early fall, and in shore pine woodlands in fall, sometimes growing in clusters and lining the edges of moist depressions.
(Boletus edulis)
Habitat: Occurs with conifers.
(Suillus lakei)
Habitat: Occurs under Douglas fir.
(Suillus grevillei)
Habitat: Associated with larch.
(Leccinum manzanitae)
Habitat: Associated with Arbutus and Arctostaphylos.
Substrate: Soil.
(Leccinum manzanitae)
Habitat: Associated with Arbutus and Arctostaphylos.
Substrate: Soil.
(Suillus albivelatus)
Habitat: S. albivelatus occurs in mixed conifer forests and appears to be associated with pines.
(Chalciporus piperatus)
Distribution: It is widespread and can be rather common in some years, but usually is not abundant.
(Chalciporus piperatus)
Distribution: It is widespread and can be rather common in some years, but usually is not abundant.
(Xerocomellus chrysenteron)
Distribution: Northern hemisphere.
Habitat: Temperate mixed hardwood/coniferous forests.
Substrate: Soil.
(Xerocomellus chrysenteron)
Distribution: Northern hemisphere.
Habitat: Temperate mixed hardwood/coniferous forests.
Substrate: Soil.
(Boletus rubripes)
Distribution: Widespread but not particularly common in the PNW region.
Habitat: It was described from coastal conifer and mixed forests in California, but in the PNW, occurs in montane conifer forests.
(Suillus ochraceoroseus)
Habitat: Occurs with larch in higher and interior conifer forests, mostly in late spring and summer.
(Suillus ochraceoroseus)
Habitat: Occurs with larch in higher and interior conifer forests, mostly in late spring and summer.
(Boletus rubellus)
Habitat: Grassy areas, mossy lawns, or along the edges of trails, always near trees such as oaks, cottonwood, willow, and basswood or linden.
(Suillus brevipes)
Habitat: It occurs primarily with two-needle pines during late summer and fall
(Suillus lakei)
Habitat: Occurs under Douglas fir.
(Boletus barrowsii)
Distribution: Southwest United States
Habitat: Under ponderosa pines
(Suillus tomentosus)
Distribution: Very common and abundant in the PNW.
Habitat: S. tomentosus occurs primarily under lodgepole and shore pines.
(Boletus zelleri)
Distribution: Common in coastal and low elevation conifer forests.
Habitat: Occurs in urban areas, parks, along trails, and in other areas where conifers occur.
(Boletus coniferarum)
Habitat: Low- to mid-elevation conifer forests
(Aureoboletus flaviporus)
(Xerocomellus chrysenteron)
Distribution: Northern hemisphere.
Habitat: Temperate mixed hardwood/coniferous forests.
Substrate: Soil.
(Mycena haematopus)
Substrate: The fruitbodies grow in groups, often in loose clusters, on both hardwood and conifer logs and can get quite large (for a mycena).
Spores: spores are broadly ellipsoid, 7--12 x 4--7 µm
(Mycena amicta)
Spores: ellipsoid spores (6--10 x 3.5--5.5 µm)
(Coprinellus disseminatus)
(Mycena aurantiomarginata)
Distribution: Conifer forest along the Pacific Coast Known to be from Europe as well
Spores: ellipsoid, 7--9 x 4--5 µm, smooth and amyloid, and the cheilocystidia are club-shaped with numerous short projections, somewhat like a mace
(Phaeolepiota aurea)
Distribution: Widely distributed
Habitat: Usually found in the north temperate zone in disturbed areas of forests, such as along roadsides.
(Agaricus campestris)
Distribution: Worldwide
Habitat: Found in fields or pastures, especially those rich in manure
(Geopyxis carbonaria)
Habitat: Occurs after conifer forest fires
Spores: The spores are smooth, ellipsoid, 11--18 x 6--9 µm, and do not contain prominent oil drops.
(Daedaleopsis confragosa)
(Trametes hirsuta)
Habitat: Hardwood logs or woody substrates
(Ganoderma lucidum)
Distribution: Europe.
(Fomitopsis pinicola)
Habitat: Occurs on conifers and hardwoods.
(Russula nigricans)
Distribution: Broad Widespread in Northern Hemisphere
(Russula xerampelina)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Variety of forest types
(Russula fragilis)
Distribution: Broad
Habitat: Near or well-rotted wood
(Russula adusta)
Distribution: Western
Habitat: Conifer forests
(Psathyrella piluliformis)
Distribution: It is common throughout the U.S., including the PNW
(Psathyrella caput-medusae)
(Psathyrella candolleana)
Habitat: It is found around stumps or in grassy areas in the vicinity of buried roots of hardwood trees.
(Psathyrella spadiceogrisea)
(Psilocybe montana)
Distribution: Has been reported from much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Habitat: Common at higher elevations
(Boletus edulis)
Habitat: Occurs with conifers.
(Rhodocollybia butyracea)
Habitat: Conifer forests
Spores: pale pinkish buff, relatively large (mostly 7-9 x 3.5-4 µm) and tear-shaped, almond-shaped, or ellipsoid