Mushrooms that contain Y — 13 detailed entries

Below are mushrooms that contain the letter Y anywhere in the name. Each of the 13 mushrooms below opens to a full profile.

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List of Mushrooms That Contain Y

Imleria badia

A bay-brown capped bolete with pores that bruise slowly blue, a common autumn edible of European forests.

Ophiocordyceps sinensis

An orange club-shaped fungus that parasitises caterpillars on high Himalayan slopes, central to Tibetan and Chinese medicine.

Cortinarius rubellus

A nondescript rusty-brown Cortinarius whose toxin destroys the kidneys over weeks, often without early warning.

Amanita virosa

A pure white Amanita that contains the same liver-destroying amatoxins as the death cap.

Amanita muscaria

The iconic red-capped white-spotted toadstool of European folklore, containing the psychoactive compounds muscimol and ibotenic acid.

Pleurotus eryngii

A thick-stemmed Mediterranean oyster mushroom with firm scallop-like flesh, popular in restaurant cooking.

Psilocybe semilanceata

A small slender autumn grassland mushroom containing psilocybin, common in upland European pasture.

Pleurotus ostreatus

A shelf-forming pale grey to tan mushroom that grows in overlapping clusters on hardwood logs, both wild and widely cultivated.

Boletus edulis

The British name for Boletus edulis, the bun-shaped brown-capped bolete also known as cep and porcini.

Coprinus comatus

A tall, cylindrical white inkcap with shaggy scales that dissolves into black ink with age.

Suillus luteus

A glossy chestnut-brown bolete with a sticky cap and a stem ring, growing in association with pines.

Trametes versicolor

A common multicoloured bracket fungus with concentric bands, widely used in traditional Asian medicine and modern immunology research.

Agaricus xanthodermus

A white-capped Agaricus that bruises chrome yellow and smells of iodine, a common cause of mushroom-related stomach upset.