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Looking for 2-syllable mushrooms? Here are 12 mushrooms that fit — each linked to a full profile.

Syllables are counted across the whole name (multi-word names sum). "Apple" is 2 syllables; "Macaroni and Cheese" is 6.

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List of 2-syllable Mushrooms

Cyathus striatus

A tiny cup-shaped fungus filled with disc-like "eggs" that are splashed out by raindrops.

Hypsizygus tessellatus

A cultivated cluster mushroom from East Asia with marbled tan caps, the natural-coloured strain of bunashimeji.

Inonotus obliquus

A dark cracked sterile growth that bursts from birch trunks in cold climates, valued in traditional folk medicine.

Amanita phalloides

A pale greenish-capped Amanita that causes the majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide.

Scleroderma citrinum

A hard yellow-brown warty ball with a purple-black interior, mildly toxic and often confused with edible puffballs.

Geastrum triplex

A puffball-relative whose outer skin splits open into a many-pointed star to reveal a spore sac.

Grifola frondosa

The Japanese name for Grifola frondosa, a layered rosette of fan caps with both culinary and medicinal value.

Morchella esculenta

A spring-fruiting ascomycete with a distinctive honeycombed conical cap, one of the most prized edibles in the foraging world.

Ganoderma lingzhi

A shiny lacquered bracket fungus used for centuries in East Asian medicine, sometimes called the "mushroom of immortality."

Phallus impudicus

A phallic-shaped fungus topped with a foul black slime, evolved to attract flies that disperse its spores.

Cortinarius species

The huge genus of cortinarius mushrooms, several of which contain the slow-acting kidney toxin orellanine.

Hypsizygus tessellatus

A cultivated cream-coloured cluster mushroom from East Asia, often sold under the name bunashimeji.

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