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Bay Bolete
Imleria badia
A bay-brown capped bolete with pores that bruise slowly blue, a common autumn edible of European forests.
Below are mushrooms that contain the letter B anywhere in the name. Each of the 21 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
List of Mushrooms That Contain B
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Beefsteak Fungus
Fistulina hepatica
A blood-red bracket fungus that grows on oak and chestnut, named for its meat-like appearance and red juice.
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Birch Bolete
Leccinum scabrum
A grey-brown capped bolete with a tall scaly stem, growing only under birch trees.
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Bird's Nest
Cyathus striatus
A tiny cup-shaped fungus filled with disc-like "eggs" that are splashed out by raindrops.
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Black Truffle
Tuber melanosporum
A black warty underground ascomycete from oak woodlands of southern Europe, treasured as the diamant noir of French cuisine.
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Black Trumpet
Craterellus cornucopioides
A dark, hollow funnel-shaped chanterelle relative with smoky flavour, sometimes called the "horn of plenty."
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Brown Beech
Hypsizygus tessellatus
A cultivated cluster mushroom from East Asia with marbled tan caps, the natural-coloured strain of bunashimeji.
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Button Mushroom
Agaricus bisporus
The young white form of the world's most cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.
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Common Puffball
Lycoperdon perlatum
A small pear-shaped puffball covered in fine spines, edible when pure white inside.
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Deadly Webcap
Cortinarius rubellus
A nondescript rusty-brown Cortinarius whose toxin destroys the kidneys over weeks, often without early warning.
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Earthball
Scleroderma citrinum
A hard yellow-brown warty ball with a purple-black interior, mildly toxic and often confused with edible puffballs.
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Funeral Bell
Galerina marginata
A small brown wood-rotting mushroom containing the same amatoxins as the death cap, often mistaken for edible species.
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Giant Puffball
Calvatia gigantea
An enormous white spherical mushroom of rich grassland, edible when young and bright white throughout.
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Liberty Cap
Psilocybe semilanceata
A small slender autumn grassland mushroom containing psilocybin, common in upland European pasture.
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Penny Bun
Boletus edulis
The British name for Boletus edulis, the bun-shaped brown-capped bolete also known as cep and porcini.
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Portobello
Agaricus bisporus
The fully mature brown-capped form of Agaricus bisporus, with broad open gills and a meaty texture.
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Summer Bolete
Boletus reticulatus
A pale brown-capped bolete with a finely cracked surface, fruiting earlier than its porcini cousins.
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Webcap
Cortinarius species
The huge genus of cortinarius mushrooms, several of which contain the slow-acting kidney toxin orellanine.
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White Beech
Hypsizygus tessellatus
A cultivated cream-coloured cluster mushroom from East Asia, often sold under the name bunashimeji.
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Witches' Butter
Tremella mesenterica
A bright orange-yellow jelly fungus that fruits on dead hardwoods after rain, harmless if usually flavourless.
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Wood Blewit
Lepista nuda
A lilac-tinged cap and gill mushroom of autumn leaf litter, with a perfumed flavour and a long British folk tradition.
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