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Page Last Updated: February 14 2021
36 species
Deer Mushroom - stalk to 15 cm
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pluteaceae
Genus: Pluteus (Deer Mushrooms)
Species: Cervinus (also Atricapillus)
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Fawn Mushroom - fruits on rotted wood
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hymenogastraceae (formerly Cortinariaceae)
Genus: Galerina (formerly Pholiota)
Species: Autumnalis (also Marginata)
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Autumn Galerina
Crumble Cap - stalk to 4 cm
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinellus (formerly Pseudocoprinus)
Species: Disseminatus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Non-inky Coprinus, Fairy Ink Cap
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Updated February 22 2014
Shaggy Mane - stalk to 15 cm
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinus
Species: Comatus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Lawyer's Wig - becomes black and turns
into an inky black fluid (see below)
into an inky black fluid (see below)
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Updated October 11 2010
Sharp-scaly? Pholiota - stalk to 10 cm
Genus: Pholiota
Species: Squarrosoides?
Kingdom: Fungi
Order: Agaricales
Family: Strophariaceae
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Gasteromycetes)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits in clusters on or near hardwood trees or stumps -
possibly P. squarrosa (Scaly Pholiota)?
possibly P. squarrosa (Scaly Pholiota)?
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Updated February 22 2014
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinopsis (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Lagopus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Homobasidiomycetes?)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Hare's Foot Ink Cap - 3 genera
(Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from
the Coprinus genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae
family
(Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from
the Coprinus genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae
family
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Updated August 6 2011
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Armillaria
Species: Mellea
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated January 19 2015
Order: Agaricales
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pleurotaceae
Genus: Pleurotus
Species: Ostreatus? Pulmonarius?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Parasola (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Auricoma? Plicatilis? Leiocephala?
Many similar species - 3 genera (Coprinopsis, Coprinellus
and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus genus and
moved to the Psathyrellaceae family
and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus genus and
moved to the Psathyrellaceae family
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Updated January 17 2015
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Omphalotus
Species: Olearius
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated October 2 2012
Order: Agaricales (formerly Tricholomatales)
Family: Hygrophoraceae (formerly Tricholomataceae)
Genus: Hygrocybe
Species: Coccinea?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated April 24 2019
Order: Russulales
Family: Russulaceae
Genus: Russula
Species: ?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Many species that are difficult to distinguish
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Updated October 6 2020
Vermilion Waxcap (H. miniata) is similar but taller with a
smaller cap
smaller cap
Shaggy Mane (old) - stalk to 15 cm
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinus
Species: Comatus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Lawyer's Wig - becomes black and turns
into an inky black fluid
into an inky black fluid
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Updated October 11 2010
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Hypsizygus (formerly Pleurotus)
Species: Ulmarius
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Formerly known as H. tessulatus or tessellatus which is
now used to refer to a smaller, darker mushroom - usually
seen singly or in pairs - fruits on Elm and Manitoba Maple
(Boxelder)
now used to refer to a smaller, darker mushroom - usually
seen singly or in pairs - fruits on Elm and Manitoba Maple
(Boxelder)
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Updated October 8 2012
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinellus (formerly Pseudocoprinus)
Species: Domesticus?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Homobasidiomycetes?)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Mycelium or Ozonium (vegetative part of a fungus) - possibly
C. radians? - found on decaying hardwood logs
C. radians? - found on decaying hardwood logs
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinopsis (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Variegata (formerly Quadrifidus)
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Homobasidiomycetes?)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Feltscale Inky Cap - 3 genera (Coprinopsis,
Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus
genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae family - fruits on
decaying hardwood logs
Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus
genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae family - fruits on
decaying hardwood logs
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Updated January 2 2013
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Phyllotopsis
Species: Nidulans
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits on decaying logs
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Updated December 4 2013
Order: Agaricales
Genus: Mycena
Species: Leaiana
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits on wood, usually in clusters
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Updated October 7 2013
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae (formerly Tricholomataceae?)
Genus: Flammulina
Species: Velutipes
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated October 7 2013
Also known as Velvet Foot, Velvet Stem, Winter Mushroom -
similar to F. populicola and Deadly Galerina - fruits on wood
in cold weather - cultivated in Asia as Enokitake which
appears quite different due to the way it is grown
similar to F. populicola and Deadly Galerina - fruits on wood
in cold weather - cultivated in Asia as Enokitake which
appears quite different due to the way it is grown
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinopsis (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Atramentaria?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Homobasidiomycetes?)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
C. atramentaria is also known as Tippler's Bane due to it's
poisonous nature when consumed with alcohol - 3 genera
(Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from
the Coprinus genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae
family - fruits in grass on buried wood
poisonous nature when consumed with alcohol - 3 genera
(Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and Parasola) were split from
the Coprinus genus and moved to the Psathyrellaceae
family - fruits in grass on buried wood
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Updated October 7 2013
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae (Tricholomataceae ?)
Genus: Rhodotus (formerly Pleurotus)
Species: Palmatus (formerly Subpalmatus)
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated October 19 2013
Order: Agaricales
Family: Physalacriaceae
Genus: Physalacria
Species: Inflata
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as Bladder Fungus
Order: Agaricales
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Parasola (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Auricoma? Plicatilis? Leiocephala?
Many similar species - 3 genera (Coprinopsis, Coprinellus
and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus genus and
moved to the Psathyrellaceae family
and Parasola) were split from the Coprinus genus and
moved to the Psathyrellaceae family
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Lacrymaria (formerly Psathyrella)
Species: Velutina
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Homobasidiomycetes?)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits on lawns
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Updated October 26 2013
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae (formerly Coprinaceae)
Genus: Coprinellus (formerly Coprinus)
Species: Micaceus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Also known as MIca or Glistening Inkcap - grows in clusters
on decaying wood (possibly buried)
on decaying wood (possibly buried)
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Updated February 22 2014
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Updated January 17 2015
Deer Mushroom - cap 5 to 12 cm - stalk to 15 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - September 2010
Crumble Cap - cap to 1.5 cm - stalk to 4 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - September 2010
Shaggy Mane - cap 5 to 15 cm - stalk to 15 cm - Leslie Spit - November 2009
Sharp-scaly? Pholiota - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 10 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - September 2010
Woolly Inky Cap (mature) - cap to 3 cm - stalk to 10 cm - East Don Valley (Charles Sauriol Conservation Area) - August 2011
Honey Mushroom - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 15 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - October 2010
Oyster Mushroom - cap to 20 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - July 2012
Jack O'lantern - cap to 15 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - September 2012
Hygrocybe species - cap to 5 cm - West Don Valley (Sunnybrook Park) - September 2012
Shaggy Mane (old) - cap 5 to 15 cm - stalk to 15 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - September 2012
Elm Oyster Mushroom on Manitoba Maple - cap to 15 cm - stalk to 10 cm - High Park - October 2012
Firerug Inkcap - approx. 2.5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Todmorden Mills) - November 2012
Scaly Inky Cap - cap to 8 cm - stalk to 10 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - August 2010
Orange Mock Oyster Mushroom - cap to 8 cm - stalkless - West Don Valley (Sunnybrook Park) - September 2013
Orange Mycena Mushroom - cap 2 to 4 cm - stalk to 8 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - September 2010
Velvet Stalk Mushroom - cap 2 to 6 cm - stalk to 7 cm - West Don Valley (Serena Gundy Park) - September 2013
Common? Inky Cap - cap 2 to 8 cm - stalk to 15 cm - Toronto Islands - October 2013
Netted Rhodotus - cap to 5 cm - stalk to 5 cm - Kortright Centre for Conservation - September 2013
Bladder Stalks - cap to 1 cm - height to 2 cm - Kortright Centre for Conservation - September 2013
Parasola Mushroom - cap approx. 4 cm - stalk approx. 7 cm - West Don Valley (Sunnybrook Park) - September 2011
Weeping Widow Mushroom - cap 3 to 8 cm - stalk to 12 cm - Mount Pleasant Cemetery - October 2013
Mica Cap - cap to 5 cm - stalk to 8 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - May 2008
Parasola Mushroom - cap approx. 4 cm - stalk approx. 8 cm - Sherbourne Common - August 2012
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholomopsis
Species: Decora
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits on conifers
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Updated January 20 2015
Tricholomopsis decora Mushroom - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 6 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - October 2014
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Entoloma
Species: Clypeatum
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits on the ground - also known as Shield Pinkgill
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Updated January 21 2015
Entoloma clypeatum Mushroom - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 10 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - October 2014
Mycena? Mushroom - cap approx. 1.5 cm
Order: Agaricales
Family: Mycenaceae?
Genus: Mycena?
Species: Strobilinoides?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits under pines - possibly Vermilion Waxycap (Hygrocybe
miniata in the Hygrophoraceae family) which fruits on the
ground in woods
miniata in the Hygrophoraceae family) which fruits on the
ground in woods
More Mycena
Updated November 21 2015
Family: Mycenaceae (formerly Tricholomataceae)
Mycena? Mushroom - cap approx. 1.5 cm - stalk approx. 3 cm - Uxbridge - July 2015
Order: Agaricales
Family: ?
Genus: ?
Species: ?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated March 11 2016
Unidentifed Mushroom - cap to 7 cm - stalk approx. 6 cm - Uxbridge - November 2015
Found under White Cedar trees
Order: Agaricales
Family: Agaricaceae? (formerly Lepiotaceae)
Genus: Macrolepiota? (also Lepiota)
Species: Procera?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Cap is initially spherical
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Updated February 17 2014
Parasol? Mushroom - cap 8 to 25 cm - stalk to 40 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - October 2010
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Marasmius
Species: Capillaris?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated September 21 2017
Pinwheel Mushroom - cap to 1.5 cm - stalk to 6 cm - York Regional Forest (Dainty Tract) - September 2017
Grows on leaf litter - M. rotula is similar but grows on
decaying wood - M. siccus is orange-brown - M.
pulcherripes is pinkish
decaying wood - M. siccus is orange-brown - M.
pulcherripes is pinkish
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholoma
Species: Vaccinum
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
More Tricholoma vaccinum
Updated March 20 2019
Tricholoma vaccinum - cap to 8 cm - stalk to 8 cm - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2018
Fruits under conifers
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: ?
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Amanita species - cap approx. 5 cm - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2018
Amanita genus includes some of the most toxic
mushrooms
mushrooms
Order: Agaricales
Species: Umbrosus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated March 24 2019
Velvet Shield - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 10 cm - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2018
Family: Pluteaceae
Genus: Pluteus (Deer Mushrooms)
Fruits on rotted hardwoods
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Updated March 29 2019
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Genus: Baeospora
Species: Myriadophylla
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Larvender colour when young turning to brown - fruits on
rotting wood
rotting wood
Updated October 6 2020
Russula species - cap approx. 3 cm - York Regional Forest (Robinson Tract) - September 2020
Order: Agaricales
Family: Schizophyllaceae
Genus: Schizophyllum (split leaves)
Species: Commune
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
When wet the gill-like folds split exposing the spore-bearing
surfaces - sometimes placed in its own order
Schizophyllales
surfaces - sometimes placed in its own order
Schizophyllales
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Updated August 21 2012
Split Gill - cap to 5 cm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - January 2011
Baeospora myriadophylla - cap to 4 cm - York Regional Forest (Robinson Tract) - October 2020
Order: Agaricales
Family: Inocybaceae
Genus: Crepidotus
Species: Mollis
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
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Updated December 27 2020
Crepidotus mollis - cap to 7 cm - no stalk - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2020
Fruits on decaying hardwood logs and stumps
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Updated December 27 2020
Deadly Galerina - cap 2 to 6 cm - stalk to 9 cm - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2020
Genus: Hypholoma (also Naematoloma)
Species: Sublateritium (also Lateritium)
Kingdom: Fungi
Order: Agaricales
Family: Strophariaceae
Class: Agaricomycetes (formerly Gasteromycetes)
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Fruits in clusters on hardwood logs or stumps - also
known as Brick Top
known as Brick Top
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Updated January 28 2021
Brick Cap - cap to 10 cm - stalk to 10 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - September 2012
Order: Agaricales
Genus: Panellus
Species: Serotinus
Kingdom: Fungi
Class: Agaricomycetes
Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Family: Mycenaceae
Late Fall Oyster - approx. 2 cm - Thickson Woods (Whitby) - October 2020
Fruits on dead hardwoods