• the scaly hedgehog (pictured) is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
• the hexagonal-pored polypore mushroom produces the antifungal polypeptide alveolarin?
• the orange webcap mushroom (pictured) can bioaccumulate the toxic element mercury?
• the king stropharia, a prized edible mushroom, develops spiny cells which kill nematodes?
• the soapy knight is actually a mushroom, so named because of its strong smell of soap?
• the brittlegill mushroom Russula betularum grows under birch, while the closely related Russula emetica is found under conifers?
• the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America?
• the bitter and inedible mushroom Russula fellea (pictured) smells of geraniums or apple sauce?
• the pinwheel Marasmius (pictured) releases its spores in response to rain, rather than circadian rhythm like other mushrooms?
• the Orange-girdled Parasol mushroom has an odor that has been described as similar to rubber or cut metal?
• the Candy cap mushroom species Lactarius camphoratus has been used as part of a pipe tobacco mix?
• the specific epithet of the mushroom species Crepidotus versutus is derived from the Latin word meaning "clever"?
• the cap surface of the mushroom Strobilomyces foveatus (pictured) is covered with scales, while the spore surface is covered with spines?
• the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America?
• the branched shanklet is a mushroom that grows on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
• the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
• the mosaic puffball mushroom (pictured) can bioaccumulate the trace metals copper and zinc?
• the buff and yellow mushrooms (fruiting bodies) of the fungus Boletus radicans (pictured) can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter?
• the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae, which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California, turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?
• the red-purple coloured inedible mushroom Russula sardonia has a hot peppery taste?
• the red mushroom Russula sanguinaria, known as the "bloody brittlegill", smells fruity but is hot tasting?
• the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus?
• the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
• the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note?
• though the mushroom Lactarius subdulcis (pictured) is considered edible, it has a taste similar to ivy?
• the yellow-green mushroom Entoloma rodwayi of wet forests in Tasmania turns a vivid blue-green upon drying?
• the widely consumed porcini mushroom is often confused with the fungus Boletus pinophilus (pictured)?
• the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen?
• the odor of the North American mushroom species carrot-foot Amanita (pictured) has been compared to an old ham bone, while the related gunpowder Lepidella smells of bleaching powder?
• the deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata (pictured), initially described by the Tyrolian naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca?
• the deadly mushroom Clitocybe dealbata is known as the "sweating mushroom" because this is a striking side effect of consuming it?
• the dark purple-brown mushroom Russula caerulea is edible and mild-tasting, although the cap skin is bitter if chewed?
• the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina (pictured) has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?
• the exposed flesh of the mushroom Boletus amygdalinus (pictured) will immediately turn blue when cut?
• the name of the mushroom Amanita echinocephala (pictured) means "hedgehog-head" in Ancient Greek, referring to its spiny, or warty-looking cap?
• the name teonanácatl, referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs, translates to "the flesh of God"?
• the mushrooms Boletus zelleri, B. mirabilis, Suillus americanus, S. brevipes, S. lakei, and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes?
• the mushroom Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus has been described as "beautiful, but bitter-tasting"?
• a specimen of Australia's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across?
• a species of mushroom in the genus Phlebopus can attain cap diameters of up to 1 meter (3.3 ft)?
• Tricholoma ustaloides (pictured), generally considered an inedible species of mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some Mexican communities?
• although it produces its spores on gills, the mushroom Panus conchatus (pictured) is more closely related to species with pores?
• although the mushroom Russula delica (pictured) is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?
• despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
• consumption of the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe argentipes by mice who compulsively bury marbles significantly inhibits this behaviour?
• consuming the elfin saddle mushroom would result in the harmful formation of monomethylhydrazine, a component of rocket fuel, in your body?
• Spinellus fusiger is a pin mold that parasitizes several species of mushrooms?
• Leucopaxillus albissimus, one of the larger mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a fruiting body unusually resistant to decay?
• Chroogomphus (pictured) is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite on other fungi in pine forests?
• mushroom species Mycena haematopus (pictured), also known as the "Bleeding Mycena", oozes a red latex when cut?
• white kimchi, Shiitake mushrooms, and rice cakes made with mung beans are elements of Korean temple cuisine (pictured)?
• Nippon Steel Corporation, the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs?
• Boletus calopus, a European mushroom, derives its scientific name from the Ancient Greek for "pretty foot," referring to its attractive stalk?
• Disciotis venosa, Hygrophorus subalpinus, Mycena overholtsii, Plectania nannfeldtii, Ramaria botrytis, and Clitocybe glacialis (pictured) are all mushrooms that grow in or near snowbanks?
• Cortinarius semisanguineus, whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes?
• despite its fishy smell, Lactarius volemus is considered a choice mushroom for eating?
• phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa?
• the mushroom Cystodermella cinnabarina can only be distinguished from similar fungi by performing chemical tests and microscopic analysis of spores, basidia and cystidia?
• the mushroom Cortinarius triumphans (pictured) has a cap which is slimy in wet weather and sticky in dry?
• the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia?
• the mushroom Entoloma austroprunicolor of Tasmania's wet forests changes from bluish-purple, to reddish purple, to purplish grey as it ages?
• the mushroom Lactarius glyciosmus smells strongly of coconuts?
• the mushroom Russula integra is a popular food in Northern Europe?
• the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?
• the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the "Bleeding milkcap" because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
• the mushroom fire-milk Lactarius is so named because of its acrid taste?
• the waxcap mushroom Hygrocybe austropratensis (pictured) has been declared an endangered species by the Government of New South Wales?
• species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
• several species in the mushroom order Pezizales, such as Geopyxis carbonaria (pictured), Peziza violacea, Peziza praetervisa, and Rhizina undulata, grow on burned-over ground?
• royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms, as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement?
• the "Devil's Cigar" is a mushroom found only in Texas and Japan?
• the agaric mushroom species Agaricus benesii is found under the pines of Monterey Cypress trees and bruises pinkish-red when injured?
• the hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe naematoliformis (pictured) was first discovered in a tropical rain forest in the Uxpanapa Region of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico?
• the fungus Hypomyces tremellicola is a parasite that deforms the cap of the mushroom Crepidotus mollis?
• "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for Calocybe carnea, a small pink mushroom of grassy areas in Europe and North America?

Facts on topics related to Mushroom

Fungus

• "bleeding tooth fungus" is a member of the woody toothed fungus genus Hydnellum (example pictured)?
• "little white", a mushroom in the fungal genus Trogia, has been implicated in the deaths of about 400 people in Yunnan, China?
• "pig's ears", fungal species Gomphus clavatus, are the only Gomphus species in North America?
• fungus Tricholoma pardinum (pictured) was responsible for over 20% of cases of mushroom poisoning in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century?
• Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
• Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
• Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin?
• Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
• English mycologist and plant pathologist R.W.G. Dennis has 40 fungal species named after him?
• because he misidentified the stalked lattice stinkhorn fungus (pictured) as a new species, George Atkinson was ridiculed in print by fellow mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd?

Edible mushroom

• a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
• Hygrocybe coccinea (pictured) is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal?
• Lactarius blennius has been described by various mycologists as edible, inedible and even poisonous?
• the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill (pictured) has a fruity smell?
• the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium?
• the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
• the edible mushroom Hygrophorus agathosmus smells like almonds?
• the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic?
• the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast-like human pathogens?
• the mushrooms Boletus zelleri, B. mirabilis, Suillus americanus, S. brevipes, S. lakei, and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes?

Agaricus bisporus

• the highly toxic all-white toadstool Amanita virosa, one of several species known as the destroying angel, can be confused with the common mushroom when young?
• when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata, closely resembles an edible mushroom?

Hypha

• Aliquandostipitaceae members have the widest hyphae in the Ascomycetes?
• some members of the fungal family Orbiliaceae can lasso nematodes using outgrowths of their hyphae?
• the scales of the flaming Pholiota are easily sloughed off due to the gelatinous hyphae that make up the cap surface?

Microbiology

• Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell?
• soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians, and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology, microbiology and soil chemistry research?
• the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?

Amanita muscaria

• the yellow wart (pictured) is often confused with the fly agaric?

Mushroom hunting

• the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
• the appearance of the decorated Pholiota (pictured) at a 1994 North Carolina mushroom foray led to its re-classification two years later?