Inedible Mushrooms
Here is a list of inedible mushrooms. The mushrooms are not necessary poisonous, but useless as food.
Take in consideration that mushrooms can look different depending on the location and climate. The photos on this page may not be representable for species in your area.
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Turbinellus floccosus
(Scaly Chanterelle)
Family
Gomphaceae
Location
North America, Asia
Dimensions
5-15 cm diameter * 8-15 cm tall
Edibility
Inedible
Description
Turbinellus floccosus, also known as Scaly Chanterelle, has an orange-capped vase- or trumpet-shaped fruiting body. The lower surface, the hymenium, is covered in wrinkles and ridges rather than gills or pores, and is pale buff or yellowish to whitish.
Fruiting body initially cylindrical, maturing to trumpet- or vase-shaped. There is no clear demarcation between the cap and stipe. The stripe it is solid in younger specimens, though is often hollowed out by insect larvae in older. At higher elevations, two or three fruit bodies may arise from one stipe. Colored various shades of reddish- to yellowish-orange, the cap surface is broken into scales, with the spaces between more yellow and the scales themselves more orange. The white flesh is fibrous and thick, though thins with age. Somewhat brittle, it can sometimes turn brown when cut or bruised. Spores are brownish.
Similar species The related Turbinellus kauffmanii is similar-looking but has a pale brown cap. Younger specimens of the latter species also have a pungent smell. Turbinellus fujisanensis, found in Japan, is another lookalike that has smaller spores than Turbinellus floccosus.
Turbinellus floccosus on the MushroomExpert.Com web site.
Fruiting body initially cylindrical, maturing to trumpet- or vase-shaped. There is no clear demarcation between the cap and stipe. The stripe it is solid in younger specimens, though is often hollowed out by insect larvae in older. At higher elevations, two or three fruit bodies may arise from one stipe. Colored various shades of reddish- to yellowish-orange, the cap surface is broken into scales, with the spaces between more yellow and the scales themselves more orange. The white flesh is fibrous and thick, though thins with age. Somewhat brittle, it can sometimes turn brown when cut or bruised. Spores are brownish.
Similar species The related Turbinellus kauffmanii is similar-looking but has a pale brown cap. Younger specimens of the latter species also have a pungent smell. Turbinellus fujisanensis, found in Japan, is another lookalike that has smaller spores than Turbinellus floccosus.
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Tylopilus felleus
(Bitter Bolete)
Family
Boletaceae
Location
North America, Europe
Dimensions
Cap 6-12 cm diameter, stem 7-10 cm tall * 2-3 cm diameter
Edibility
Inedible
Description
Tylopilus felleus, commonly known as the bitter bolete or the bitter tylopilus, is a bolete that has slightly to distinctly pink pores on the underside of the bun-shaped brown cap and a dark net on the thick stem are characteristic of this bolete. It is also distinguished by a very bitter taste.
Cap Grey-yellow to pale- or walnut-brown, it is slightly downy at first and later becomes smooth with a matte lustre. It is initially convex before flattening out with maturity. Flesh whitish, with pinkish tinge beneath cap cuticle, unchanging, thick and firm. Stem pallid background with brown reticulation, stout and slightly bulbous. The mushroom has no ring.
Similar species When young this is easily mistaken for Boletus edulis, except that it is very bitter and has a dark stem net.
Tylopilus felleus on the www.first-nature.com web site.
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Cap Grey-yellow to pale- or walnut-brown, it is slightly downy at first and later becomes smooth with a matte lustre. It is initially convex before flattening out with maturity. Flesh whitish, with pinkish tinge beneath cap cuticle, unchanging, thick and firm. Stem pallid background with brown reticulation, stout and slightly bulbous. The mushroom has no ring.
Similar species When young this is easily mistaken for Boletus edulis, except that it is very bitter and has a dark stem net.
Tylopilus felleus on the www.first-nature.com web site.
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