Gilled Mushrooms

Honey mushrooms

Fertile surface: True gills

Spore print: White

Key trait:

• Clustering at base of wood

• Ring on stem

• Black rhizomorphs

Lookalikes:

• Deadly Galerina

• Sulphur tuft

Matsutake

Fertile surface: True gills

Spore print: white

Key traits:

• Strong spicy odor

• Skirt on stipe

• Boot like partial vail

• Thick dense flesh

Lookalikes:

• Smiths amanita

• Easter bitter tricholoma

Oyster Mushrooms

Fertile surface: True Gills, decurrent

Spore Print: White-Lilac

Key traits:

• Anise like scent

• Shelving in large clusters

• Light colored gills

Lookalikes:

• Angel Wings

• Veiled oyster

• Flat Crep

• Tiger sawgill

Shaggy Mane

Fertile surface: True gills, free

Spore print: Black

Key traits:

• Saprobic

• Liquifying with age

• String like stem

Lookalikes:

• Alcohol inky

• Scaly inky

Blewit

Fertile surface: True gills, crowded, sinuate

Spore print: Pink

Key trait:

• Orange juice concentrate scent

• Lavender violet when young

• Pink to buff with age

LOOK ALIKES:

• Purple cortinarius

• Purple gilled laccaria

Enoki mushrooms

Fertile surface: True Gills, close, attached

Spore print: White

Key trait:

• Velvety dark stem base

• Clustering on wood

• Fall to spring growing season

• Look alikes:

• Deadly galerina