Welcome to Mushroom World
Step into the fascinating world of mushrooms with Mushroom World - your go-to resource for fungi information. Our site is a comprehensive resource offering information and stunning images of mushrooms mainly found in Europe and North America.
Since there are thousands of known species of mushrooms, we have tried to limit those we list to the most common ones. New species are also continuously added to the site.
So come on in and explore the wonders of mushrooms with us. We hope you find our site informative, inspiring, and a valuable resource on your journey of mushroom discovery.
Below is an overview of the main features and functionalities of our site.
Browse the database
You can browse the database from the alphabetical list or search the database based on mushroom names or properties.
Help identify a mushroom
If you know the characteristics of a mushroom but need help identifying it, try using our mushroom identification helper. It is a tool designed to assist you in identifying mushrooms that you may come across.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, a community site for mushroom identification. There are also many Facebook groups for mushroom identification, like the public Mushroom Identification group.
Identification Quiz
We have also created a quiz where you can test your fungi identification knowledge. You can repeat the quiz as many times as you want, each time with new questions.
Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Amanita battarrae (Banded Amanita). It grows in Europe.
Description: Amanita battarrae, also known as the Banded Amanita, is a medium-sized, grey-brown, fleshy agaric with a volval bag, but no ring or cap patches. It is distinguished from other ringless Amanita species (often referred to as grisettes) by the zoned colouring of its marginally grooved cap. It grows solitary or scattered on soil in broad-leaf woods (particularly oaks but also Ash and Hazel) and on heaths. It fruits during the summer and autumn.
Cap starts off egg-shaped, becoming convex, and then flattening while still keeping a shallow umbo. It has pronounced striations at the margin, often featuring a narrow dark band where the striations begin. The cap colour consists of a range of grey-brown shades, with the centre darkening as the fruit body matures. Occasionally, velar fragments may be present when the mushroom is young. Gills free from the stem or slightly attached to it, creamy white, close or crowded. There are often a few short gills, of variable length and irregularly distributed. Stem white or tinged with the cap colour, tapering only slightly (narrower near the cap). The base is enclosed in a sacklike, persistent, white volva with orange-brown spots. The volva is sometimes buried below ground level or in leaf litter. The stem has no ring. Spore print white.
Microscopic Features: Spores are spherical, smooth, and measure 11-13µm in size. They are inamyloid.
Note: A very similar species occurs in some parts of North America.
Amanita battarrae on the First Nature Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 5-12 cm diameter, stem 7-15 cm tall * 0.8-1.8 cm diameter
This site contains no information about the edibility or toxicity of the mushroom.
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
Many mushrooms are poisonous and some are lethally poisonous. It can be very difficult to distinguish between an edible and a poisonous mushroom. Because of that, we strongly advise against consuming wild mushrooms, and this site does not contain any information about the edibility or toxicity of mushrooms.
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