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Saffron Milk Cap
Lactarius deliciosus
An orange concentric-banded cap that bleeds carrot-coloured milk when cut, a classic Mediterranean and Eastern European edible.
If you've been searching for mushrooms that start with S, you'll find 8 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.
For mushrooms, that means scientific name, family, edibility, habitat, and identification notes.
List of Mushrooms That Start With S
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Shaggy Mane
Coprinus comatus
A tall, cylindrical white inkcap with shaggy scales that dissolves into black ink with age.
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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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Slippery Jack
Suillus luteus
A glossy chestnut-brown bolete with a sticky cap and a stem ring, growing in association with pines.
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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.
About mushrooms starting with S
That's our current list of mushrooms starting with the letter S. We add new entries every week — if you have a favorite mushroom starting with S that isn't on this page, let us know and we'll write it up.
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