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  • Mushroom Identification
    • First Steps
      • Learning about mushrooms
      • The First Time We Saw Mushrooms
    • Identification Course
      • The species concept
      • Universal veils
      • Partial Veils
      • Spore color
    • Mushroom Profiles
      • Amanita
        • Amanita muscaria
        • Booted Amanitas: Subsections Gemmatae and Pantherinae
        • Powdery Amanitas: Subsection Farinosae
        • Amanita: Section Phalloideae
        • Amanita: Validae, subsection Mappae
        • Amanita: Section Validae, the flavoconioids
        • Blushing Amanitas
      • Echinodontium
        • A Real American Ivory-billed Woodpecker
        • Echinodontium ballouii – from eyeballs to DNA
        • Ballou, Man of Science!
      • Spongiforma squarepantsii
  • Mushrooms and People
    • Interviews and Biographies
      • Phaeocollybia and beyond: an interview with Lorelei Norvell
      • Woman of Science – an interview with Cardy Raper
      • William Hosea Ballou, scoundrel and mycologist
    • Who’s In a Name?
      • Bondartsev and Berkeley
      • William Archer
    • Prehistoric Cave Paintings of Mushrooms
    • Eating mushrooms
      • General Info
        • Edibility and Poisoning
        • Cooking wild mushrooms
        • Preserving mushrooms
      • Edible mushrooms
        • Cooking with Oysters
        • Desert Truffles – from the souq to my kitchen
      • Poisonous mushrooms
        • Amanita regalis poisonings
    • Mushroom clubs
  • Mushroom Biology and Taxonomy
    • What is a mushroom made of?
    • How many mushrooms?
    • Deconstructing the Kingdoms
    • Ron Meyers’ Myco-etymological dictionary

Mushroom Identification

 

Amanita muscaria. Photo by Pam Kaminski.

Our easterm muscarioid Amanita. Photo by Pam Kaminski.

Starting out

First Steps

First Steps
Taking your first steps in mushroom collection and identification


The Mushroom Identification course

The Mushroom Identification course

The Mushroom Identification Course
A methodical coverage of the steps to identifying mushrooms


Mushroom Profiles

Mushroom Profiles

Mushroom Profiles
Detailed profiles of individual mushrooms, and of related groups of mushrooms.


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