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Winter Mushroom Guide: Identifying Common Wild Mushrooms (North America)

Even in the winter, you can discover edible and medicinal mushrooms on your forest adventures.

This guide to fall mushrooms covers many of the common wild mushrooms you will find in the winters in the vast forests of North America (Canada and the United States).

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amber jelly fungus 1
Exidia recisa
Brick Cap 2
Hypholoma lateritium
Velvet Foot 3
Flammulina velutipes
Late Oyster 1
Sarcomyxa serotina
Oyster Mushroom 4
Pleurotus ostreatus
Orange Jelly Spot 1
Dacrymyces chrysospermus
witch's butter 5
Tremella mesenterica
Wood ear fungi 6
Auricularia
Chaga Mushroom 7
Inonotus obliquus
turkey-tail 8
Trametes versicolor
birch polypore 9
Fomitopsis betulina
Auricularia angiospermarum 10
Blewit 11
Lepista nuda

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