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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 O anywhere in the name. Each of the 32 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
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List of Mushrooms That Contain O
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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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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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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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Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureus
A bright sulphur-yellow and orange bracket fungus that grows in shelves on living and dead hardwood trees.
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Common Inkcap
Coprinopsis atramentaria
A grey scaly inkcap that reacts dangerously with alcohol, causing flushing and palpitations.
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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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Cordyceps
Ophiocordyceps sinensis
An orange club-shaped fungus that parasitises caterpillars on high Himalayan slopes, central to Tibetan and Chinese medicine.
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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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Enoki
Flammulina velutipes
A long-stemmed white mushroom grown in tightly packed bundles, popular across East Asian cooking.
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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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Fool's Mushroom
Amanita verna
A spring-fruiting white Amanita with the same liver-destroying amatoxins as the death cap.
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Hedgehog Mushroom
Hydnum repandum
A cream-buff cap mushroom with soft tooth-like spines instead of gills, beloved by beginner foragers for its safety and flavour.
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Hen of the Woods
Grifola frondosa
A large rosette of grey-brown fan-shaped caps that fruits at the base of oaks, also known as maitake in Japan.
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Horse Mushroom
Agaricus arvensis
A large fragrant white meadow agaric smelling of aniseed, growing in grass enriched by livestock.
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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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King Oyster
Pleurotus eryngii
A thick-stemmed Mediterranean oyster mushroom with firm scallop-like flesh, popular in restaurant cooking.
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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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Oyster Mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
A shelf-forming pale grey to tan mushroom that grows in overlapping clusters on hardwood logs, both wild and widely cultivated.
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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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Porcini
Boletus edulis
A stout, brown-capped bolete prized worldwide for its meaty texture and nutty aroma when dried.
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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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St George's Mushroom
Calocybe gambosa
A cream-coloured spring-fruiting field mushroom, traditionally appearing in Europe around St George's Day on 23 April.
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Stinkhorn
Phallus impudicus
A phallic-shaped fungus topped with a foul black slime, evolved to attract flies that disperse its spores.
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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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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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