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Clitocybe odora, commonly known as the blue green anise mushroom, [2] or aniseed toadstool, is a blue-green mushroom that smells strongly like anise. It grows near deciduous and coniferous trees, in small groups alongside tree roots.
Gliophorus psittacinus, commonly known as the parrot toadstool or parrot waxcap, is a colourful mushroom that is a member of the genus Gliophorus, found across Northern Europe. It was formerly known as Hygrocybe psittacina , but a molecular phylogenetics study found it to belong in the genus Gliophorus .
The red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture. [29] Garden ornaments and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes. [29] [135] Fly agarics have been featured in paintings since the Renaissance, [136] albeit in a subtle manner.
Toadstool generally denotes one poisonous to humans. [ 1 ] The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus ; hence, the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi ( Basidiomycota , Agaricomycetes ) that have a stem ( stipe ), a cap ( pileus ), and gills (lamellae, sing.
Bioluminescent Mycena roseoflava Panellus stipticus, one of about 125 known species of bioluminescent fungi. Found largely in temperate and tropical climates, currently there are more than 125 known species of bioluminescent fungi, [1] all of which are members of the order Agaricales (Basidiomycota) with one possible exceptional ascomycete belonging to the order Xylariales. [2]
1786 illustration. Coprinellus micaceus was illustrated in a woodcut by the 16th-century botanist Carolus Clusius in what is arguably the first published monograph on fungi, the 1601 Rariorum plantarum historia (History of rare plants), in an appendix, [2] [3] Clusius erroneously believed the species to be poisonous, and classified it as a genus of Fungi perniciales (harmful fungi).
Sarcophyton glaucum, also known as toadstool leather coral or rough leather coral, is a common species of soft coral found from the Red Sea to western Pacific Ocean. Sarcophyton glaucum belongs to the phylum Cnidaria, the class Anthozoa, and the family Alcyoniidae.
Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the sweet tooth, pig's trotter, [7] wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Hydnaceae.First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type species of the genus Hydnum.