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coral mushrooms

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A colourful group of mushrooms found in the Agaricales, or grilled mushroom order, in a family called the Clavariaceae. These mushrooms grow in a variety of areas, and are highly variable in terms of ...

cortinarius

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

The world's largest genus of mushrooms, it gets its name from the partial veil that covers the cap of the young fruiting bodies. The presence of lamellulae, or short gills also provides a good field ...

polyporales

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

These are the tough, tree growing polypores, also called shelf mushrooms.

phallales

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

A diverse mushroom group that includes stinkhorns, some corals and others.

pezizales

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

Technically known as operculate cup-fungi, mushroom enthusiasts think morels and truffles.

agaricales

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

Common mushroom type for gilled mushrooms.

boletales

Fruits & vegetables; Mushrooms and fungi

Type of mushroom into which most pored mushrooms, or boletes, fit. There are some gilled bolete species.

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