Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians

A.H. Sm Adnate Agaricales Family Amanita blackish Boletaceae Boletales Boletales Family Bolete broad-leaved trees broadly elliptical brownish bruising Cantharellus cap or paler clusters colored Comments conifer conifer woods Convex to broadly cylindrical decurrent Edibility equal or tapering False Morels fertile surface flesh thin flesh white Fruitbody gilled mushrooms glabrous globose gray grayish brown gregarious ground in broad-leaved grows hyaline Hygrocybe illustrated Lactarius latex Latin name Length of stalk less equal means mixed woods mycelium mycorrhizal nearly flat non-amyloid Occurrence ochraceous odor and taste odor not distinctive orange Order pale brown pale yellow partial veil Peck Common name Polyporales Polypore Pore surface purplish reddish brown ring Russula Russulales Family saprobic scaly scurfy similar slightly small groups Solitary sometimes species Spore print staining stumps subglobose surface dry surface smooth Synonym taste mild taste not distinctive thick Tricholoma Tricholomataceae Width umbo velvety viscid volva warts white to pale Width of cap yellow-brown