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Scientific name Common name Active agent Distribution Similar edible species Picture Agaricus californicus: California Agaricus: phenol and xanthodermin: North America Edible Agaricus species Agaricus hondensis [1] Felt-ringed Agaricus: phenol and xanthodermin: North America Edible Agaricus species Agaricus menieri: phenol and xanthodermin: Europe
The scientific name has been created with Greek words (lycos meaning wolf and perdomai meaning to fart) [citation needed] and based on several European dialects in which the mushroom name sounds like wolf-farts. Most species are edible, ranging from mild to tasting distinctly of shrimp.
Common names include the misleading Maltese fungus or Maltese mushroom; also desert thumb, red thumb, tarthuth and suoyang (Chinese). A rare or local species, it grows in dry, rocky or sandy soils, often in salt marshes or other saline habitats close to the coast.
Young specimens like this are sometimes confused with puffballs or other non-deadly mushrooms. The name destroying angel applies to several similar, closely related species of deadly all-white mushrooms in the genus Amanita. [1] They are Amanita virosa in Europe and A. bisporigera and A. ocreata in eastern and western North America ...
Pleurocybella porrigens is a species of fungus in the family Phyllotopsidaceae.The species is widespread in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] P. porrigens, known as the angel wing, is a white-rot wood-decay fungus on conifer wood, particularly hemlock (genus Tsuga). [3]
Coprinopsis atramentaria Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Psathyrellaceae Genus: Coprinopsis Species: C. atramentaria Binomial name Coprinopsis atramentaria (Bull.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001) Synonyms Coprinus atramentarius Species of fungus Coprinopsis atramentaria Mycological ...
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Tricholoma is a genus of fungus that contains many fairly fleshy white-spored gilled mushrooms which are found worldwide generally growing in woodlands. These are ectomycorrhizal fungi, existing in a symbiotic relationship with various species of coniferous or broad-leaved trees.