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Spores produced on rather than in the parent cells (called basidia).
Includes familiar mushrooms (Agarics),
 but also some rather strange fungi,
 like Jellies, Teeth, Corals,  Puff-balls,
 Stinkhorns and Bird's nests.

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Spores produced inside cells (called asci).
Includes Earth Tongues, Truffles and Morels.

The differentiation of Basidiomycetes from Ascomycetes needs a microscope, but fortunately the fruiting bodies are distinctive and the simplified groups illustrated here are recognisable to the naked eye. Individual species are much harder to name.

The species list is more helpful if you already know the name of a fungus since not all are linked from this page yet.

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Basidiomycetes

Go to Agaric contents pageAgarics or gilled mushrooms

   Gills under the cap drop spores from their surfaces. Spores are often more than dropped, for they can be shot off from the asci by hydrostatic pressure.

Boletes

 Mushrooms with pores instead of gills.

 

Scutums or Pouch Fungi.

 Spores in a closed sac on a stalk.

(Although photographed, 3d fungi are not all on this web - try coming back!)

Puff Balls.

Spores in a sac, puffed through an apical hole to be spread by air currents. Or lacking a hole and not actively dispersed at all but perhaps eaten by animals.

 

Stink Horns.

Spores in a smelly slime, dispersed by insects attracted to the foul odour.

Bird's nest fungiBirds Nests.

Spores are on "eggs" (peridioles) in a nest , dispersed by rain splashes.

 

Coral fungiCoral fungi.

Single (Club fungi) or many erect branches. If there is a knob, (often flattened) that is where the spores come from. "Fairy clubs" have a slim, rounded stem, but no knob or branches, although they often grow in groups. Do not confuse with Earth tongues (which are Ascomycetes: flattened, velvet surface, often with a knob.)

 

Polypores.

Brackets on trees with holes underneath to release spores

 

Spine or Tooth Fungi.

 Hanging spines or teeth.

 

Thelephores.

Leathery plates.

Crust fungi.

Cups, Morels, ToungesFlat "scabs" on wood.

Jelly Fungi.

Firm jelly on wood.

Cups, Morels, Tounges

 

 

 

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Ascomycetes

Cup Fungi.

Like bowls, but can be flat.

Morels.

Wrinkled heads on a stalk. Rare in New Zealand.

Earth TongueEarth Tongues

Spores formed in cells on the fungal surface are shot out of the asci, which behave like "spore cannons".

Microglossum viridum

 

Note that the fungal mycelium is identified by microscopy (or better still: DNA).Gilled toadstools

As some fungi rarely if ever produce fruiting bodies it is common for mycelia to have a different scientific name from the fruiting body, even though they are the same organism when checked by DNA. Mycology is hard for both amateurs and professionals, but photographers and artists enjoy themselves without worrying too much about Latin names. Many fungi shown here are "unknown" to the author, but they are still pretty, especially in 3D.

 

 

  1. Fungi home page
  2. Identification of fungi  -> leading to higher resolution stereo pairs
  3. Getting to the bottom of fungi including wobble stereo
  4. Fungi contents page: by classification
  5. Species Alphabetical List

 

 

 

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