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Summer Mushroom Field Guide: Identifying Wild Mushrooms (North America)

If it has been wet and rainy then summer can be a great time for mushrooms.

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

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chicken of the woods 1
Laetiporus sulphureus
Red Chanterelle 2
Cantharellus cinnabarinus
Old Man of the Woods 3
Strobilomyces floccopus
summer oyster mushroom 4
Pleurotus pulmonarius
Jackson's slender Caesar 5
Amanita jacksonii
Beefsteak Polypore 6
Fistulina hepatica
Ganoderma sessile 7
Smooth Chanterelle 8
Cantharellus lateritius
Black Trumpet 9
Craterellus fallax
Dotted-stalked Suillus 10
Suillus granulatus
Golden Gilled Bolete 11
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Chicken Fat Mushroom 12
Suillus americanus
Frost's Bolete 13
Exsudoporus frostii
Chestnut Bolete 14
Gyroporus castaneus
Berkeley's Polypore 15
Bondarzewia berkeleyi
ringless honey mushroom 16
Armillaria tabescens
hemlock varnish shelf 8
Ganoderma tsugae
Parasol 17
Macrolepiota procera
Cantharellus minor 8
Green Quilt Russula
Russula crustosa
fairy ring marasmius 18
Marasmius oreades

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