Basidiomycota

This species photographed in Puerto Rico.

Two photographs and information on this basidiomycetous truffle.

Photograph and information on this stipitate polypore.

Photograph and information on this boletoid fungus.

Photograph and information on this bolete.

Photograph and the identifying features of this species.

Information on this species, and photographs of the fruiting bodies and spores.

Photograph of four pine seedlings variously affected by Ceratobasidium spp.

Description and natural habitat of this genus of yeasts, which lack pseudohyphae and hyphae, and their macroscopic and microscopic features.

A number of images of the fruitbodies of this jelly fungus including basidia and spores seen much enlarged.

A number of images of the fruitbodies of this jelly fungus including some magnified specimens.

Article with photographs by Tom Volk on this species which causes heartrot in aspen trees and conks on the trunk.

Description of this species, and photograph of it exuding droplets of red fluid.

Tom Volk and his colleagues discovered that this crust fungus can degrade phenolic resin plastics which are used in laminating formica and which were previously thought to be non-biodegradable.

An article by Sean Westmoreland and Tom Volk on this strange species with indeterminate fruiting bodies.

Tom Volk provides photographs and information on the cauliflower or noodle mushroom.

Several photographs of this resupinate fungus.

Two photographs of this species, with a description of the fruiting body and spores, and information on where and when to look for it.English and Polish.

Tom Volk writes of this fungus, commonly known as oak parchment, which grows and feeds on the dead bark of trees causing smooth patches, and its interesting features when viewed under the microscope.

Several photographs of this species.

Photograph and description of the lion's mane.

Photographs and notes on this blue species.

Photographs of Boletopsis grisea, Boletopsis melaena and Boletopsis subsquamosa. Text in Polish.

Several photographs of this species which infects antirrhinums, and microscopic images of the uredospores.

Many photographs, some enlarged or magnified, of this rust fungus.

The principal characteristics of the genus Agaricus and links to other sites. Also a list of those species found in California with photographs of about 20 of them.

Photograph and notes on this species.

Photograph and information on this species from the montane scrub of Costa Rica.

Article by Tom Volk on this fungus, which is one of a number of fungi used in the dyeing of wool.

Photographs and article by Tom Volk on this Honey Fungus, a new species discovered by him on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, and why it was so named.

Photograph and information on this dainty agaric.

Photograph of this bird’s nest fungus which grows on bark or wood mulch, and an illustrated account by Tom Volk of its unusual reproductive structures.

Article by Tom Volk on this interesting fungus, which besides living on rotting wood, also traps and eats nematodes.

Article by Tom Volk on this edible fungus, the Oyster Mushroom, some other fungi with which it might be confused, and some other Pleurotus species.

Photographs of this species in both its mature and egg stage.

A list of those species in this genus to be found in California with photographs of 4 of them.

Paul Stamets provides a number of photographs of members of this genus with information on their habitats and characteristics.

This delicate species was photographed in Puerto Rico.

Information from Wikipedia on this family of fungi which seems to include any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genus in the Agaricales not already classified in another family.

Article by Tom Volk on this fungus, commonly known as the American Matsutake, a delicious edible mushroom.

Photograph and information on this species.

Photographs, description and microscopic features.

Description of this species and a photograph.

image. (=Amanita hemibapha subsp. hemibapha sensu auct. Japan)

Photographs and detailed description.

Color image (Canadian mat'l.)

Illustration as part of site listing red-listed European fungi.

Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this Hawaiian mushroom.

Photographs, description and distinguishing features.

Image and description of this California mushroom species formerly misidentified as Amanita rubescens, with links.