Agaricales

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.

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.