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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 T anywhere in the name. Each of the 34 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
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List of Mushrooms That Contain T
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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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Button Mushroom
Agaricus bisporus
The young white form of the world's most cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.
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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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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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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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Death Cap
Amanita phalloides
A pale greenish-capped Amanita that causes the majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide.
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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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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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Giant Puffball
Calvatia gigantea
An enormous white spherical mushroom of rich grassland, edible when young and bright white throughout.
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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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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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Liberty Cap
Psilocybe semilanceata
A small slender autumn grassland mushroom containing psilocybin, common in upland European pasture.
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Maitake
Grifola frondosa
The Japanese name for Grifola frondosa, a layered rosette of fan caps with both culinary and medicinal value.
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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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Portobello
Agaricus bisporus
The fully mature brown-capped form of Agaricus bisporus, with broad open gills and a meaty texture.
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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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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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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 Beech
Hypsizygus tessellatus
A cultivated cream-coloured cluster mushroom from East Asia, often sold under the name bunashimeji.
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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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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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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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