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A Field Guide For Identifying Mushrooms In Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia

In the rainforests near the equator, you will find some of the highest mushroom biodiversity on Planet Earth.

Use this field guide for identifying the mushrooms you will discover hiking and exploring in the rainforests in the tropics and subtropics.

Tropical nations like Panama, ...more ↓

Cookeina speciosa 1
Cookeina tricholoma 2
Mustard Yellow Polypore 3
Fuscoporia gilva
purple pinwheel 4
Marasmius haematocephalus
Coral tooth fungus 5
Hericium coralloides
stalked puffball-in-aspic 6
Calostoma cinnabarinum
indigo milk cap 7
Lactarius indigo
fluted bird's nest fungus 8
Cyathus striatus
Golden Spindles 9
Clavulinopsis fusiformis
Bristly Tropical Cup 2
Cookeina tricholoma
Cookeina speciosa 1
purple pinwheel 4
Marasmius haematocephalus
Favolaschia 10
indigo milk cap 7
Lactarius indigo
Favolaschia 10
Mustard Yellow Polypore 3
Fuscoporia gilva
Coral tooth fungus 5
Hericium coralloides
Golden Spindles 9
Clavulinopsis fusiformis
stalked puffball-in-aspic 6
Calostoma cinnabarinum
fluted bird's nest fungus 11
Cyathus striatus
Tripe Fungus 12
Auricularia mesenterica
Phallus luteus 1
Ear fungus 13
Auricularia cornea
Crystal Brain Fungus 14
Myxarium nucleatum
Parasola auricoma 15
Old-man-of-the-woods 16
Strobilomyces strobilaceus
golden reishi 17
Ganoderma curtisii
Panaeolus cyanescens 18
Stinking Orange Oyster 19
Phyllotopsis nidulans
Ochre Jelly Club 20
Leotia lubrica
hare's foot inkcap 21
Coprinopsis lagopus
dead man's fingers 22
Xylaria polymorpha
Green Russula 23
Russula virescens
green pepe 24
Mycena chlorophos
Bleeding Fairy Helmet 25
Mycena haematopus
Mycena singeri 26
Luminescent Panellus 27
Panellus stipticus
Fly Agaric 28
Amanita muscaria
field and button mushrooms 29
Agaricus
Funnels 30
Clitocybe
Trogia 26
artist's bracket and allies 31
Ganoderma
Panus similis 32
Penguin-spored Lepiota 14
Lepiota spheniscispora
Marasmius tageticolor 33
Cotylidia aurantiaca
Dictyonema huaorani 34
Chicken Lips 35
Leotia viscosa
Macrolepiota colombiana 26
Cordyceps tenuipes 33
Hymenogloea papyracea 36
Blewit 37
Lepista nuda
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis 38
Psilocybe zapotecorum 26
Lentinula aciculospora 34
Laternea dringii
Earth Tongues 39
Geoglossum
Bresadolia uda 34
Lentinus concavus
Xylaria telfairii 34
Scarlet Caterpillar Club 29
Cordyceps militaris
Entonaema pallida 26
Daldinia eschscholzii 40
Phillipsia domingensis 41
Eyelash Cup 42
Scutellinia scutellata
Beauveria diapheromeriphila 43
Red-capped Scaber Stalk 16
Leccinum aurantiacum
Collared Earthstar 44
Geastrum triplex
flowerpot parasol 45
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
Auricularia nigricans 26
Ophiocordyceps 46
Macrocybe titans 47
Marasmius pulcherripes 48
Cookeina sulcipes
Sulcate Sunhead 49
Heliocybe sulcata
Xylaria cubensis
velvet parachute 50
Marasmius elegans
Auricularia americana
column stinkhorn 51
Clathrus columnatus
white maze polypore 52
Trametes elegans
Panellus pusillus 26
Panaeolus antillarum 53
karoko 54
Auricularia delicata
Purple-veiled Slippery Jack 16
Suillus luteus
Candlesnuff Fungus 55
Xylaria hypoxylon
Oak-loving Gymnopus 56
Gymnopus dryophilus
Coenogonium linkii 57
Rosy Conk 34
Rhodofomes cajanderi
Southern Cinnabar Polypore 58
Pycnoporus coccineus
Laternea pusilla 59
violet-toothed polypore 60
Trichaptum biforme
artist's bracket 61
Ganoderma applanatum
anemone stinkhorn fungus 62
Aseroe rubra
splitgill mushroom 63
Schizophyllum commune
strangled stinkhorn 45
Staheliomyces cinctus
Trametes ochracea 64
Common Cinnabar Polypore
Pycnoporus sanguineus
Christmas lichen 65
Herpothallon rubrocinctum
rounded earthstar 50
Geastrum saccatum
Psilocybe cubensis 66

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