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S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)
S: (n) Scleroderma flavidium, star earthball (an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel)
S: (n) Scleroderma bovista, smooth earthball (an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity)
S: (n) Truncocolumella citrina (a fungus with a round yellow to orange fruiting body that is found on the surface of the ground or partially buried; has a distinctive sterile column extending into the spore-bearing tissue)
S: (n) slime mold, slime mould (a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists)
S: (n) white fungus, Saprolegnia ferax (a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins))
S: (n) white rust (fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia)
S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) coral fungus (any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral)
S: (n) lichen (any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.)
S: (n) ascolichen (a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete)
S: (n) basidiolichen (a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete)
S: (n) lecanora (any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food)
S: (n) manna lichen (any of several Old World partially crustaceous or shrubby lecanoras that roll up and are blown about over African and Arabian deserts and used as food by people and animals)
S: (n) crottle, crottal, crotal (any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made)
S: (n) Iceland moss, Iceland lichen, Cetraria islandica (lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol)
S: (n) mushroom (any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium)
S: (n) morel (any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap)
S: (n) Disciotis venosa, cup morel (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)
S: (n) Verpa, bell morel (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)
S: (n) Verpa bohemica, early morel (resembles a thimble on a finger; the surface of the fertile portion is folded into wrinkles that extend from the top down; fruiting begins in spring before the leaves are out on the trees)
S: (n) Verpa conica, conic Verpa (a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) Stropharia ambigua (a gilled fungus with a long stalk and a yellow slimy cap from which fragments of the broken veil hang; gills are initially white but become dark brown as spores are released)
S: (n) Stropharia hornemannii (a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring)
S: (n) Stropharia rugoso-annulata (a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk; the cap is dark brown; the white gills turn dark purplish brown with age; edible and choice)
S: (n) Entoloma aprile (an agaric with a dark brown conical cap; fruits in early spring)
S: (n) Chlorophyllum molybdites (a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color; cap can reach a diameter of 30 cm; often forms `fairy rings')
S: (n) straw mushroom, Chinese mushroom, Volvariella volvacea (small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially)
S: (n) Clitocybe clavipes (an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base)
S: (n) Clitocybe dealbata (a small poisonous agaric; has a dry white cap with crowded gills and a short stalk)
S: (n) Clitocybe inornata (a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled)
S: (n) Clitocybe subconnexa (an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters; the gills are narrow and crowded and the stalk is fleshy and unpolished)
S: (n) winter mushroom, Flammulina velutipes (an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters)
S: (n) waxycap (any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance)
S: (n) Hygrophorus borealis (a fungus with a white convex cap and arcuate white gills and a stalk that tapers toward the base)
S: (n) Hygrophorus caeruleus (a fungus with a broadly convex cap that is cream color with a tint of blue over the margin; waxy gills are bluish green to blue-grey; a short stalk tapers abruptly at the base)
S: (n) Hygrophorus inocybiformis (a fungus with a drab squamulose cap and grey-brown squamules over the white background of the stalk and waxy grey-white gills)
S: (n) Hygrophorus kauffmanii (a fungus with a slightly viscid cap; cap and gills are reddish brown and the stalk is grey)
S: (n) Neohygrophorus angelesianus (a fungus with a small brown convex cap with a depressed disc; waxy wine-colored gills and a brown stalk; fruits in or near melting snow banks in the western mountains of North America)
S: (n) Cortinarius armillatus (a fungus with large tawny caps and pale cinnamon gills and a red band of veil around the stalk; usually found near birch trees)
S: (n) Cortinarius atkinsonianus (an edible fungus with a slimy viscid cap that is initially yellow but turns olive and then tawny; flesh is lavender)
S: (n) Cortinarius corrugatus (a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown)
S: (n) Cortinarius gentilis (a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk)
S: (n) Gymnopilus spectabilis (a fungus with a brownish orange fruiting body and a ring near the top of the stalk; the taste is bitter and the flesh contains psilocybin and psilocin)
S: (n) Gymnopilus validipes (a poisonous fungus with a dry cap and a cortina that does not leave much of a ring on the robust stalk)
S: (n) Gymnopilus ventricosus (a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk)
S: (n) shoestring fungus (any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples)
S: (n) Armillaria ponderosa, white matsutake (a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest)
S: (n) Armillaria zelleri (a large fungus with viscid cap that dries and turns brown with age; gills are off-white)
S: (n) polypore, pore fungus, pore mushroom (woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent)
S: (n) Albatrellus dispansus (a rare fungus having a large (up to 14 inches wide) yellow fruiting body with multiple individual caps and a broad central stalk and a fragrant odor)
S: (n) Albatrellus ovinus, sheep polypore (a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular)
S: (n) Neolentinus ponderosus (a gilled polypore with a large cap (up to 15 inches in diameter) and a broad stalk; edible when young and tender)
S: (n) Nigroporus vinosus (a woody pore fungus with a dark brown to red brown cap and spore surface and small pores)
S: (n) Oligoporus leucospongia (a pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada)
S: (n) Polyporus tenuiculus (a fungus with a whitish kidney-shaped cap and elongated pores; causes white rot in dead hardwoods)
S: (n) Polyporus squamosus, scaly polypore (a fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
S: (n) scaly lentinus, Lentinus lepideus (a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice)
S: (n) sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)
S: (n) ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)
S: (n) Leotia lubrica (a discomycete that develops in clusters of slippery rubbery gelatinous fruiting bodies that are dingy yellow to tan in color)
S: (n) Mitrula elegans (a discomycete that is 3-8 cm high with an orange to yellow fertile portion and white or pinkish stalks often half in and half out of the water)
S: (n) Sarcoscypha coccinea, scarlet cup (a discomycete that is a harbinger of spring; the fruiting body is thin and tough and saucer-shaped (about the size of quarter to a half dollar) with a deep bright red upper surface and a whitish exterior)
S: (n) Caloscypha fulgens (an early spring variety of discomycete with yellow to orange yellow lining of the cup)
S: (n) Peziza domicilina (a discomycetous fungus of the genus Peziza; the fragile fruiting body is a ghostly white but stains yellow when broken; favors strongly alkaline habitats)
S: (n) Galiella rufa (the cup-shaped fruiting body of this discomycete has a jellylike interior and a short stalk)
S: (n) Jafnea semitosta (the fruiting bodies of this discomycete have a firm texture and long retain their cup shape; the pale brown interior blends with the color of dead leaves)
S: (n) yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)
S: (n) Wynnea americana (a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange)
S: (n) Wynnea sparassoides (a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower)
S: (n) Helvella acetabulum (a helvella with a cup-shaped fertile body having a brown interior; the stalk is creamy white and heavily ribbed)
S: (n) Helvella sulcata (a helvella with an irregularly convoluted cap that is dark brown when young and becomes dull grey with age; the lower surface of the cap is smooth and pale grey; the stalk is thick and deeply fluted)
S: (n) Discina macrospora (a discina with a flat or saucer-shaped fertile body that is brown on the upper surface; has a short stalk; not recommended for eating)
S: (n) lorchel (a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae)
S: (n) Gyromitra sphaerospora, round-spored gyromitra (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains)
S: (n) Gyromitra esculenta, brain mushroom, beefsteak morel (a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown)
S: (n) Calostoma lutescens (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case)
S: (n) Calostoma cinnabarina (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body this globose and has a red spore case)
S: (n) Calostoma ravenelii (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body with a thin gelatinous spore case and elliptical spores)
S: (n) stinkhorn, carrion fungus (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales) "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
S: (n) Phallus ravenelii (this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh)
S: (n) dog stinkhorn, Mutinus caninus (a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it)
S: (n) stinky squid, Pseudocolus fusiformis (a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point)
S: (n) puffball, true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)
S: (n) earthstar (any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star)
S: (n) Geastrum coronatum (an earthstar with a bluish spore sac and a purplish brown gleba; at maturity the outer layer splits into rays that bend backward and elevate the spore sac)
S: (n) Astreus pteridis (the largest earthstar; the fruiting body can measure 15 cm across when the rays are expanded)
S: (n) Astreus hygrometricus (a common species of earthstar widely distributed in sandy soil; the gleba is a pale tan)
S: (n) Radiigera fuscogleba (a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up; the spore mass is brown at maturity with a column of sterile tissue extending up into it)
S: (n) bird's-nest fungus (any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores)
S: (n) Gastrocybe lateritia (a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses)
S: (n) Macowanites americanus (a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap)
S: (n) Boletus edulis (an edible and choice fungus; has a convex cap that is slightly viscid when fresh and moist but soon dries and a thick bulbous tan stalk)
S: (n) Boletus luridus (a poisonous fungus with a dingy yellow cap and orange red undersurface and a cylindrical reticulate stalk)
S: (n) Boletus mirabilis (a fungus that is edible when young and fresh; has a dark brown convex cap with a yellow to greenish under surface and reddish stalk)
S: (n) Boletus pallidus (a fungus that has an off-white cap when it is young but later becomes dingy brown and a stalk of the same color; the under surface of the cap (the tubes) a pale greenish yellow)
S: (n) Boletus pulcherrimus (a beautiful but poisonous bolete; has a brown cap with a scarlet pore surface and a thick reticulate stalk)
S: (n) Boletus pulverulentus (an edible fungus with a broadly convex blackish brown cap and a pore surface that is yellow when young and darkens with age; stalk is thick and enlarges toward the base)
S: (n) Boletus roxanae (a fungus with a rusty red cap and a white pore surface that becomes yellow with age and a pale yellow stalk)
S: (n) Boletus subvelutipes (a fungus with a velvety stalk and usually a dingy brown cap; injured areas turn blue instantly)
S: (n) Boletus variipes (an edible (but not choice) fungus found on soil under hardwoods; has a dry convex cap with whitish under surface and a reticulate stalk)
S: (n) Boletus zelleri (an edible and choice fungus that has a brown cap with greenish yellow under surface and a stalk that become dull red with age)
S: (n) Fuscoboletinus paluster (an edible fungus with a pinkish purple cap and stalk and a pore surface that is yellow with large angular pores that become like gills in maturity)
S: (n) Tremella foliacea (a jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color)
S: (n) Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))
S: (n) blister rust, Cronartium ribicola (fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host)
S: (n) covered smut (a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes)
S: (n) loose smut (a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores)
S: (n) onion smut, Urocystis cepulae (smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings)
S: (n) flag smut fungus (a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores)