Does it look like a bracket Common Mushroom Genera in Georgia Does it look like a traditional mushroom? on wood? Shape? v1.2 Vase with stem Coltricia Hydnellum, Texture? Hydnum, Sarcodon, Teeth Phallic Auriscalpium Phallus, Mutinus Pores What’s underneath? Octopus tentacles Velvet, jelly-like texture Pseudocolus Texture? Smooth Teeth Soft, fleshy with dark spots on stem Shallow folds Auricularia, Dacryopinax Pseudohydnum Cap and Stem with teeth Leccinum Hydnellum, Sarcodon Tough and on wood yellow/orange? Gill-like folds split down the middle Polyporus Schizophyllum Gelatinous ball on a stick Calostoma Soft and fleshy, dry cap, having a Tough and woody having a smooth or wrinkly smooth, spotted or netted stem Brown or gray varnished surface with pores EARTHSTARS Starfish Boletus, Austroboletus, Boletellus, Orange flesh Craterellus, Thelephora Ganoderma, Fomes, Inonotus Geastrum, Astraeus Chalciporus, Xerocomus, Gyroporus, FALSE Dark inside Pulveroboletus, Tylopilus, Harrya White flesh Flamingo pink Spines or teeth PUFFBALLS (white inside) Scleroderma, Pisolithus CHANTERELLE Cantharellus cinnabarinus Trichaptum, Climacodon, Lycoperdon, Bovista, Calvatia, Arachnion, Omphalotus, Cantharellus Soft and fleshy with a slimy cap Hericium Handkea Hygrophoropsis CARBON BALLS Black cap True Gills Tough, not woody, smooth or wrinkly surface Daldinia Glandular Aleurodiscus Kretzschmaria, Peniophora, Phlebia, with scales dots? Soft or Podoscypha, Stereum, Thelephora, Xylobolus Spherical Strobilomyces Soft and colored Suillus Boletus curtisii leathery with Cordyceps, Spathularia, true gills Calocera Hard and black Pliable, woody or Xylaria Stem is soft and leathery with pores Soft and fragile FALSE CHANTERELLE Is the stem fibrous and can Ramaria, Clavaria, slightly fibrous Abortiporus, Albatrellus, Cauliflower Omphalotus, be split lengthwise? Clavulina, Tremellodendron, Sparrasis Hygrophoropsis Amylosporus, Bondarzewia, Coral-like Imposter Checks Boletopsis, Daedaleopsis, Grifola, Lentaria, Artomyces Stem is brittle or crumbly Looks like a chanterelle but has Jahnoporus, Meripilus, Microporellus, EARTHTONGUES Jelly mass Geoglossum Polyporoletus, Polyporus, SADDLES Tremella, Exidia, Dacrymyces, true decurrent gills? Gills produce a clear or colored There is no Pycnoporus, Trametes Phaeotremella, Auricularia, Helvella, Gyromitra, Morels liquid when injured? stem at all Ductifera CUPS Verpa Morchella GILLED Looks like a Lenzites, Crepidotus bolete but has Aleuria, Peziza, Sarcoscypha, Humaria, Morel-like BOLETE Lactarius Russula true decurrent Microstoma, Galiella, Sphaerosporella, Phylloporus rhodoxanthus Stem is strongly fibrous What color are the spores? Chlorociboria, Scutellinia, Bisporella, Wynnea, BIRD’s NEST gills? many others…. Cyathus, Crucibulum Bowl or Cup-like

WHITE, CREAM or YELLOW PINK GRAY, PURPLE, LIGHT BROWN to RUSTY DARK BROWN, PURPLE to BLACK GREEN Chlorophyllum molybdites Fleshy in the cap Is it slender, minor flesh content Is the cap flimsy and delicate Sturdy with hardly any and cap <5 cm? with little substance? flesh in the cap Bulb or Lilac cap and notched gills Laccaria, Mycena, Marasmius, BLEWIT Has BOTH a stem volva No bulb, growing Omphalina, Clitocybula, Rickenella, Clitocybe “Little Brown Mushrooms” Scales and Volvariella on wood? Adnate or Gerronema, Xeromphalina AND decurrent Agrocybe, Conocybe, Galerina, Tubaria, inking cap gills? decurrent Bolbitius, Simocybe, Flammulaster … Bare stem gills Coprinus WAXY CAPS Free gills Attached gills Pluteus Clitopilus Growing on Hygrocybe, Cuphophyllus, Entoloma Macrocystidia Bracket-like Gliophorus, Hygrophorus Crepidotus wood? “Little Brown Bulb or Free gills AND partial Mushrooms” Thick and pliable Distinct LBM’s volva veil? Coprinus, Clitocybe, Lentinus Amanita stem Inocybe, Hebeloma, Stropharia … Hypholoma, Dry cap Pholiota, Soft with a slimy feel Rusty brown spores Psathyrella, Agaricus, Mushroom shaped and on wood LEPIOTOIDS Attached gills, Gymnopilus Cortinarius, Agrocybe Psilocybe, Leratiomyces, Hygrocybe Hypsizygus, Lentinellus Panaeolus, Cystolepiota, and scales Stropharia, Lacrymaria, On magnolia cones Bracket or trumpet shaped and on wood Macrolepiota, Armillaria, Wine color with purplish Hypholoma Panellus, Pleurotus, Lentinellus, Panus, Phyllotopsis gills and spores Decurrent Parasola Strobilurus Leucoagaricus, Cystoderma, Tough with an elastic stem Leucocoprinus, Tricholoma, Stropharia rugosoannulata gills and Rhodocollybia, Gymnopus, Dendrocollybia, Megacollybia, Lyophyllum, Hymenopellis Lepiota Macrolepiota purple spores Slimy cap and decurrent gills This guide will not tell you if a mushroom is edible, poisonous, or medicinal. Paxillus Gomphidius