Welcome to Mushroom World

Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. This site contains information and images of mushrooms found mainly in Europe and North America.

Many mushrooms are poisonous and some are lethally poisonous. It can be very hard to distinguish between an edible and a poisonous mushroom. Because of that, we recommend that you don't eat wild mushrooms at all, and this site does not contain any information about the edibility or toxicity of the mushrooms listed here.

There are thousands of different mushroom species, so we have tried to limit those we list to the most common ones. New species are also continuously added to the site.

Browse the database

You can browse the database from the alphabetical list or search the database based on mushroom name or some property.

Help identifying a mushroom

If you know the characteristics of a mushroom, but need help to identify it, try use our Visual list of the mushrooms in the database. 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. There are also many Facebook groups for mushroom identifications like the Mushroom Identification - public group.

Identification Quiz

We have also created a quiz where you can test how good you are at identifying fungi. You can repeat the quiz as many times as you want, each time with new questions.

Today's Mushroom

Today's mushroom is Amanita fulva (Tawny grisette). It grows in North America, Europe.

Description: Amanita fulva, also known as Tawny grisette, is a medium-sized agaric with distinctive tawny cap and white gills, no ring and usually without cap patches but with volval bag. It grows solitary or scattered on soil in mixed woodlands, favouring birch.

Cap orange-brown, paler towards the margin, and darker (even very dark brown) in the center, up to 10 cm in diameter. It is at first ovoid, becoming expanded-convex and flattened. It develops an umbo when expanded, and has a strongly striated margin. Its surface is smooth, slightly sticky and slippery when moist and glistens; later it may dry. Flesh white and brittle. Stem whitish or pallid cap colour, narrower towards the apex and arising from white volval bag. Hollow in mature specimens. The mushroom has no ring.

Amanita fulva on the First Nature Web site.
Amanita fulva on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.

Dimensions: Cap 4-9 cm diameter, stem 7-12 cm tall * 0.8-1.2 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.