mushroom and scientific names

Amanita smithiana

Smiths amanita

Armillaria tabescens or Armillaria mellea (with veil ring)

honey mushroom

Auricularia angiospermarum

Wood ear (fungus)

Auricularia polytricha

cloud ear fungus

Boletus edulis

King bolete

Bondarzewia berkeleyi

Berkeley polypore

Calvatia cyathiformis

purple spored puffball

Calvatia gigantea

Giant puffball

Cantharellus cibarius (west coast)

Pacific golden chanterelle (Cantharellus formosus) or California golden chanterelle (Cantharellus californicus)

Cantharellus tenuithrix (east coast)

Golden Chanterelles

Catathelasma ventricosum

Big Cat

Cladomeris umbellata

Umbrella polypore

Coprinopsis variegata

Inky cap

Coprinus comatus

shaggy mane

Cortinarius iodes

Purple cort spp

COTYLIDIA SPP.

califlower look alitke

Craterellus fallax

Black Trumpet Mushrooms

Craterellus ignicolor

Flame colored chanterelles

Crepidotus applanatus

flat crep

Exidia crenata/recisa

Amber jelly roll

Fistulina hepatica

Beef stake mushroom

Flammulina velutipes

Enoki/velvet foot

Fomitopsis pinicola

red belt conk

Galerina marginata

deadly galerina

Ganoderma curtisii (varnished stalk/more yellows)

golden reishi or yellow varnish conk.

G. tsugae (usually larger species)

Hemlock reshi

G. sessile (no stalk)

Varnish shelf

Gloeophyllum sepiarium

conifer maze gill

Grifola frondosa

Maitake/hen of the woods

Gyromitra esculenta

False Morel

Hericium coralloides

bear's head (lions mane)

Hericium erinaceus

Lions mane

Hydnum repandum

Hedge hog mushroom

Hygrocybe cantharellus

chanterelle waxy cap

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

False Chanterelle

Hypholoma fasciculare

sulfer tuft

Hypomyces lactifluorum

Lobster mushroom

Hypomyces macrosporus

Albino Lobster mushroom

Inonotus obliquus

Chaga

Laccaria ochropurpurea

purple gilled laccria

Lactarius deliciosus

saffron milky

Lactarius fragilis, Lactarius camphoratus,

Lactarius rubidus

candy cap

Lactarius indigo

Indigo Milky

Lactarius paradoxus

Sliver blue milky

Lactarius rubrilacteus

bleeding milky

Lactifluus hygrophoroides (doesn't stain)

Hygrophorus milk cap

L. volemus (long tight gills)

voluminous-latex milky or weeping milk cap. 

L. corrugis (corrugated beige gills)

Honey mushroom

Laetiporus sulphureus

Chicken of the woods

Leccinum fibrillosum

scaber stalk/ aspen bolete

Lepista nuda

blewit

Lycoperdon marginatum

peeling puffball (dark spores with age)

Lycoperdon perlatum

warted puffball

Lycoperdon pyriforme

pear shaped puffball

Meripilus sumstinei

black staining polypore

Morchella amaricana

blonde Morel

Morchella angusticeps

Black Morel

Morchella punctipes

Half-Free Morel

Omphalotus illudens

Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom

Phaeolus schweinitzii

dyers polypore

Pleurocybella porrigens

angles wing

Pleurotus levis

veiled oyster

Pleurotus ostreatus

Oyster mushroom

Polyozellus multiplex

Blue Chanterelle

Russula crustosa

crusty russula, green quilt russula, or encrusted russula

Russula virescens

Quilted Russula

Russula crustosa, R. Viresens

Green quilted Russula

Russula emetic

the sickener

Russula variata

Variated russula

Russula variata

Variated Russula

Russula xerampelina

shrimp russula

Sarcodon imbricatus

Hawks wing

Scleroderma citrinum

poison Scleroderma

Sebacina schweinitzii

false coral mushroom

Sparassis spathulata/americana

Califlower mushroom

Stereum ostrea

false turkey tail

Trametes betulina

stiff gilled polypore

Trametes cinnabarina

Cinnabar polypore

Trametes versicolor

turkey tail

Trichaptum biforme

purple tinged polypore

Tricholoma caligatum

eastern bitter tricoloma

Tricholoma magnivelare

Matsutake

Tuber lyonii

pecan truffle

Turbinellus floccosus

Wooly Chanterelle

velvet toothHydnellum spongiosipes

velvet tooth