Scientific and Common Names of Mushrooms

[Michigan Mike]

I've found these helpful in the past and thought I'd post them here.

http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/names.html

http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/moreedible.html


The biggest problem is they keep changing the scientific names
based on new dna studies ect..
but quite a few field guides still list these.
But if you go to look it up online you will find the new name
which imo just confuses everyone.
Not much we can do except learn them as they change them.
A few of the more recent changes are listed here
and this is just for one book. lol
http://collectivesource.com/taxonomy/arora-changes.html

Just one example is the Shaggy Parasol latin name was
Lepiota rachodes
but is now.
Chlorophyllum rachodes .

mike