A
Aborted: A mushroom deformed or mutated by
the growth of and or contact of a different mycelium.
Agarics: A family of large edible and poisonous mushrooms
that need close macro and micro observations, (macro-full description
of the up rooted mushroom, the stems, the gills, pores, caps, color
etc. Micro-being a spore print).
Amanita: A very toxic mushroom, that is best to learn to
recognize and then to avoid in the future.
Armillariella mella: The Latin name for the Honey mushroom or
Stumpy.
Attached gills: where the gills of the mushroom (the underside
of the cap) is attached or slightly descending the stalk.
Azzholus woodlandi: Slang term for those who do not
respect the woods or other hunters.
B
Badgering: The digging or removal of leaves,
forest debris to find small underdeveloped mushrooms, not recommended
as this destroy mycelium growth, or the tearing of mushroom from the
ground, not cutting or pinching them off.
Boletus or Oblate: A fleshy mushroom, that looks as if
it was run under a sewing machine, pores instead of gills, like the
pores on your face when you look in the mirror.
Bruising: The color transformation, when the mushroom is
cut loose from it's growth. Like the knife scar that turns from
the yellow you cut it, to a deep blue.
Buff: A moderate to darker shade color of yellow, that
may have an orange like hue.
Button: The immature newly emerging mushroom from the ground
or from a tree growth. Can be right at ground level or on a stem 2 to
3 inches off the ground.
C
Cap: The fleshy head of the mushroom, the top
of the mushroom. Much needed in the first identification by sight.
Cup: Terminology to describe the stem growing from a cuplike
structure, at the base of the mushroom, usually associated with the Amanita
family. A key identification factor.
Chanterelle: The Cantharellus family. A highly sought after
mushroom, better left alone until you have more knowledge of mushrooms,
which are the next level up from the first safe ones you learn.
Chicken of the woods: Sulfur shelf, wood orange, (Laetiporus
sulphureus), a true beginners mushroom.
Clitocybe: A large complex family of mushrooms, best left
to advanced hunters.
Clump: Equals a small grouping of mushrooms usually not exceeding
3 to 8 mushrooms, but spaced apart or a few joined at the base.
Cluster: A large grouping of mushrooms, that grow from a
centralized root or stem, like all of them come from one original growth,
a main root.
Color variation: The range of colors that the cap can show.
Concentric: Having a centralized meeting place, usually of
equal length from the centering point.
Crowded gills: A gilled mushroom, that has very tightly packed
and numerous gill folds, sometimes wavy in appearance, until the cap,
is fully extended.
D
Death cap: No need to explain, name says it
all, the Amanita family's deadliest member.
Descending gills: A mushroom where the gills run down the
stem from the underside of the mushroom's cap.
Destroying angel: The death cap's evil sister, just as deadly.
Leave them alone unless to make a spore print, for future reference.
E
Earthstar: An odd looking mushroom, when opened
or "fruited", appears to be a star patterned with a centralized
ball in the middle usually.
Easy pickings: No such thing to a veteran mushroom hunter,
that wishes to stay healthy.
Egg (of the fungus fruiting body): Button stages
enclosed by a universal veil, as in a stinkhorn or Amanita.
Elevated (of the margin of a cap): Raised slightly
to extend above the disc of the cap.
Emergent mycelium: When the root likes structure of the mushroom
growth breaks the plane of the earth or the preferred growing medium.
Visible to the naked eye.
Endemic: Specifically grows only around certain terrain locations
or other life's form (trees, etc.).
Enotake: A commercially grown version of the Velvet Foot
(Flammulina velutipes), forced raised in darkness to give an appealing
(to some) appearance. Looks nothing likes the wild form.
F
Fairy ring: A growth of mushrooms that forms
a concentric circle, or an arc, that can be of very short distance to
many yards apart.
False: A mushroom term that means a close look alike mushroom
that can be poisonous.
Fanned: A term given to mushrooms that have foldable hand
fan appearance, when opened, like the turkey tails some parchments etc.,
usually referring to members of the polypore family.
Flush: A term used to describe when mushrooms are at the
picking stage.
Free gills: A term used to describe that the gills (underside
of the cap) are not attached to the stem.
Fresh: A debatable term used by mushroom hunters, to describe
the new growth of mushrooms.
Fruiting: A term used to say when mushrooms are beginning
to develop in the immature stage. Above the growing medium, such as earth,
mulch, tree, etc.
Flush: A new crop of mushrooms.
Fungi: Describe the complex mushroom world, from the lowly
molds to the choicest edibles.
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