fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores

Fomes, genus Fomes - genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees

basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

Agaricales, order Agaricales - typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota

mushroom - common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

toadstool - common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)

Agaricus arvensis, horse mushroom - coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and abroad white cap

Agaricus campestris, field mushroom, meadow mushroom - common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce

Amanita caesarea, Caesar's agaric, royal agaric - widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric

Amanita mappa, false deathcap - agaric often confused with the death cup

Amanita muscaria, fly agaric - poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills

Amanita phalloides, death angel, death cap, death cup, destroying angel - extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills

Amanita rubescens, blusher, blushing mushroom - yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched

Amanita verna, destroying angel - fungus similar to Amanita phalloides

Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle, chanterelle - widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma

Cantharellus floccosus, floccose chanterelle - a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet

Cantharellus clavatus, pig's ears - an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound

Cantharellus cinnabarinus, cinnabar chanterelle - mushroom with a distinctive pink to vermillion fruiting body

jack-a-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern fungus, Omphalotus illudens - a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent

Coprinus atramentarius, inky cap, inky-cap mushroom - having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured

Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane, shaggymane mushroom - common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores

Lactarius delicioso, milkcap - edible mushroom

fairy-ring mushroom, Marasmius oreades - mushroom that grows in a fairy ring

oyster agaric, oyster fungus, oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus - edible agaric with a soft grayish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood

olive-tree agaric, Pleurotus phosphoreus - red luminescent mushroom of Europe

Pholiota astragalina - a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk

golden pholiota, Pholiota aurea - a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast

Pholiota destruens - a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard

Pholiota flammans - a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk

Pholiota flavida - a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk

nameko, Pholiota nameko, viscid mushroom - one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan

Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa - a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks

Pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota - a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age