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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.
Below are mushrooms that contain the letter S anywhere in the name. Each of the 29 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
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List of Mushrooms That Contain S
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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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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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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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Earthstar
Geastrum triplex
A puffball-relative whose outer skin splits open into a many-pointed star to reveal a spore sac.
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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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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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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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Reishi
Ganoderma lingzhi
A shiny lacquered bracket fungus used for centuries in East Asian medicine, sometimes called the "mushroom of immortality."
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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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Shaggy Mane
Coprinus comatus
A tall, cylindrical white inkcap with shaggy scales that dissolves into black ink with age.
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Shiitake
Lentinula edodes
An umber-brown East Asian wood-decomposing mushroom and the world's second most cultivated edible fungus.
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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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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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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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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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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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