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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 L anywhere in the name. Each of the 32 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
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List of Mushrooms That Contain L
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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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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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Cauliflower Fungus
Sparassis crispa
A large cream-coloured cluster of ribbon-like flaps that fruits at the base of conifers, resembling a head of cauliflower.
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Chanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius
A trumpet-shaped golden-yellow mycorrhizal mushroom with false gills and an apricot scent, prized in European cuisine.
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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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Coral Tooth
Hericium coralloides
A cascading white tooth fungus that grows on hardwoods, related to lion's mane and equally edible.
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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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Destroying Angel
Amanita virosa
A pure white Amanita that contains the same liver-destroying amatoxins as the death cap.
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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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False Morel
Gyromitra esculenta
A brain-shaped reddish-brown spring fungus containing a potent hydrazine toxin, sometimes lethal.
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Field Mushroom
Agaricus campestris
The classic wild meadow mushroom, ancestor of the cultivated button and a staple of late-summer foraging.
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Fly Agaric
Amanita muscaria
The iconic red-capped white-spotted toadstool of European folklore, containing the psychoactive compounds muscimol and ibotenic acid.
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Fool's Mushroom
Amanita verna
A spring-fruiting white Amanita with the same liver-destroying amatoxins as the death cap.
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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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Jack-o'-Lantern
Omphalotus illudens
A bright orange clustered mushroom whose gills faintly glow in the dark, often mistaken for chanterelles.
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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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Lion's Mane
Hericium erinaceus
A cascading white tooth fungus that grows on hardwoods and tastes faintly of crab or lobster when cooked.
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Morel
Morchella esculenta
A spring-fruiting ascomycete with a distinctive honeycombed conical cap, one of the most prized edibles in the foraging world.
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Parasol Mushroom
Macrolepiota procera
A tall scaly mushroom of grasslands with a wide-spreading cap and a snake-skin stem, much-loved as an edible "schnitzel."
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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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Saffron Milk Cap
Lactarius deliciosus
An orange concentric-banded cap that bleeds carrot-coloured milk when cut, a classic Mediterranean and Eastern European edible.
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Slippery Jack
Suillus luteus
A glossy chestnut-brown bolete with a sticky cap and a stem ring, growing in association with pines.
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Sulphur Tuft
Hypholoma fasciculare
A bright sulphur-yellow clustered mushroom of stumps and dead wood, bitter and toxic but easy to recognise.
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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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Tremella
Tremella fuciformis
A translucent yellow gelatinous fungus, also called snow ear or silver ear, used in East Asian sweet soups and skincare.
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Turkey Tail
Trametes versicolor
A common multicoloured bracket fungus with concentric bands, widely used in traditional Asian medicine and modern immunology research.
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White Truffle
Tuber magnatum
A pale tan underground ascomycete from the Piedmont hills, the most expensive edible mushroom in the world.
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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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Yellow Stainer
Agaricus xanthodermus
A white-capped Agaricus that bruises chrome yellow and smells of iodine, a common cause of mushroom-related stomach upset.
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