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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.
If you've been searching for mushrooms that start with M, you'll find 2 detailed mushrooms below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Mushrooms That Start With M
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Morel
Morchella esculenta
A spring-fruiting ascomycete with a distinctive honeycombed conical cap, one of the most prized edibles in the foraging world.
About mushrooms starting with M
That's our current list of mushrooms starting with the letter M. We add new entries every week — if you have a favorite mushroom starting with M that isn't on this page, let us know and we'll write it up.
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