MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms that end with E

10 mushrooms ending with the letter E — each with origin, classification, and notes.

This page lists mushrooms that end with E. 10 mushrooms are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.

Table of contents 10 entries
Bay BoleteBirch BoleteBlack TruffleChanterelle
Lion's ManeMaitakeShaggy ManeShiitake
Summer BoleteWhite Truffle

List of Mushrooms That End With E

    1

    Bay Bolete

    Imleria badia

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

    2

    Birch Bolete

    Leccinum scabrum

    A grey-brown capped bolete with a tall scaly stem, growing only under birch trees.

    3

    Black Truffle

    Tuber melanosporum

    A black warty underground ascomycete from oak woodlands of southern Europe, treasured as the diamant noir of French cuisine.

    4

    Chanterelle

    Cantharellus cibarius

    A trumpet-shaped golden-yellow mycorrhizal mushroom with false gills and an apricot scent, prized in European cuisine.

    5

    Lion's Mane

    Hericium erinaceus

    A cascading white tooth fungus that grows on hardwoods and tastes faintly of crab or lobster when cooked.

    6

    Maitake

    Grifola frondosa

    The Japanese name for Grifola frondosa, a layered rosette of fan caps with both culinary and medicinal value.

    7

    Shaggy Mane

    Coprinus comatus

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

    8

    Shiitake

    Lentinula edodes

    An umber-brown East Asian wood-decomposing mushroom and the world's second most cultivated edible fungus.

    9

    Summer Bolete

    Boletus reticulatus

    A pale brown-capped bolete with a finely cracked surface, fruiting earlier than its porcini cousins.

    10

    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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