Smells of creosote or medicine cabinet sect. Stem lateral to eccentric,large Paxillus atromentarius Gills short decurrent mushrooms often in association with numbers of small, whitish,Ģ. Gills attached but not decurrent ENTOLOMAĤ. Gills long decurrent or short decurrent 4ģ. Cup present about base of stem VOLVARIELLAģ. Mushroom tough, woodlike see LENZITES (under polypores)Ģ. Spore print lilac-gray Pleurotus ostreatusġ3. Cap fleshy, stem cartilaginous XEROMPHALINAġ3. Cap & stem fleshy, small, typically on wood MYCENAġ2. Cap fleshy, stem rubbery, bendable MARASMIUSġ2. Mushrooms medium sized, orange Collybia dryophilaġ1. Mushrooms large, at base of trees stem with white, ‘root’ Tricholomopsis platyphylla Mushrooms large, rooting Oudemansiella radicata Mushrooms tiny, attached to tubers Collybia tuberosa Cap fleshy, stem fleshy to cartilaginous, small 12ġ1.

Cap fleshy, stem cartilaginous, small to large 11ġ0. Mushrooms pinkish brown to tan gills pinkish to lilac spore printġ0. Mushrooms blue to tan spore print pinkish tan, on the ground Mushrooms honey-brown, clustered on the ground on buried wood Mushrooms bright orange, clustered on wood Omphalotus Gills decurrent (even slightly) CLITOCYBE Cap fleshy but stem cartilaginous or rubbery 10ĩ. Gills waxy or waxlike on rubbing HYGROPHORUSĨ. Mushroom caps either slimy to shiny or dry and fringed sect. Gills oozing mild to acrid white latex, sometimes changing to yellow or purple Gills oozing mild to acrid white latex mushrooms often fragrant, caps dry, matte Gills oozing white latex, turning pinkish mushrooms with velvet like brown to beige Gills oozing peppery or acrid white latex mushrooms white to whitish, hard- fleshed Gills oozing mild, white latex mushrooms orange to brownish orange or darker Gills oozing orange, red or blue when broken mushrooms turning greenish on Gills oozing milklike latex on breaking LACTARIUS RigidaeĬap mostly red, slimy, shiny sect. Mushroom hard-fleshed, white or staining on bruising or aging sect. CompactaĬap yellowish, smelling like marzipan when young, fetid when matureĬap variously colored, matte sect. Gills brittle or crumbly on breaking RUSSULA Gills brittle, crumbly or gills oozing milklike latex on breaking 6Ħ. Gills attached to somewhat decurrent ARMILLARIAĥ. Ring on stem but NO cup at base of stem 4Ĥ. PhalloideaeĬup absent but cap & stem showing remnants of universal veil, as tissue fragments, powder,ģ. VaginataeĬup absent but ring present sect. Ring on stem OR cup at base of stem AMANITAĬup present and ring present sect. NO ring on stem or cup at base of stem 5ģ. Ring (skirtlike or band of tissue) on stem OR saclike cup at base of stem or removableĢ. There is also one mushroom with a distinctly greenish spore print ( Chlorophyllum molybdites, the Green-spored Lepiota), and one with a distinctly lilac-gray spore print ( Pleurotus ostreatus, the Oyster Mushroom).Ģ. Gilled mushrooms have spore prints that can be placed in four basic color groups: white to yellowish (called “white”), pinkish to salmon (called “pink”), yellow-brown to rusty-brown (called “brown”), and purple-brown to purple-black to black (called “black”).

Psilocybe spore print identification