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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.
Below are mushrooms that contain the letter W anywhere in the name. Each of the 11 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.
List of Mushrooms That Contain W
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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.
3
Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus sulphureus
A bright sulphur-yellow and orange bracket fungus that grows in shelves on living and dead hardwood trees.
4
Deadly Webcap
Cortinarius rubellus
A nondescript rusty-brown Cortinarius whose toxin destroys the kidneys over weeks, often without early warning.
5
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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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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White Truffle
Tuber magnatum
A pale tan underground ascomycete from the Piedmont hills, the most expensive edible mushroom in the world.
9
Witches' Butter
Tremella mesenterica
A bright orange-yellow jelly fungus that fruits on dead hardwoods after rain, harmless if usually flavourless.
10
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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