This is another project for which I had to capture all images by myself and having a farm in the past for Agaricus Bisorus (White button mushrooms) was bonus. These images are taken within Goa of a very few species I caught in less than a week. I will add more as I find. Hope this helps you. Good luck aspirants

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• Heterotrophs that depend upon other living/dead matter for nutrition
• Filamentous in construction
• Make up the fungal body called Mycelia(sing. Mycelium)
• Lack photosynthesis/ Non photosynthetic

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Agaricus Bisporus Scientific
Classification
Kindom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Agaricomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Agaricaceae
Genus Agaricus
Species Bisporus

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Synonyms
Portobello
White button
Crimini
Champignon
Agaricus brunnescens
Agaricus hortensis
Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as Button mushroom, is the
most widely cultivated mushroom in the world. The mushroom
grows naturally in grasslands, fields and meadows in North
America and Europe.

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Year: 2014-2017
Address: Bodiem, Thivim, Bardez-Goa
Temperature maintained: 10-12˚C
Rate of Production: Based on flushes
• As high as 300kgs a day
• As low as 3kgs a day
Guided by:
Directorate of Mushroom Research-ICAR
(Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

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Packing
200g per unit

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Spores: elliptical; smooth.
Basidia 2-spored.
Bruising: brownish
Gills: free from the stem; close; pinkish to
pinkish brown at first, becoming dark
brown to blackish.
Stipe: 2-8 cm long; 1-3 cm. thick; sturdy;
more or less equal; smooth or with small
scales below the ring; white, often
bruising brownish; with a ring that
sometimes disappears in maturity.
Veil: absent
Mycelium: whitish, longitudinally
radical, soon becoming cottony, and in
age forming a thick, tenacious mycelial
mat.
Cap: 3-16 cm, convex to broadly convex
or nearly flat in age; dry; smooth or with
pressed-down fibers or small scales;
white in some varieties, brown in others.
Spore print: brown

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Bisporus is a coprophilic fungus (a dung-loving species) that often
colonizes the dung of large herbivores, most notably cows and other
grazing mammals such as goats.
Natural Habitat
Use of mushrooms as drugs
in China
Mushroom
species
Indication
Agaricus
bisporus
• Stimulating
digestion,
• curing
hypertension

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Crepidotus Scientific
Classification
Kindom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Basidiomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Crepidotaceae
Genus Crepidotus

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Cap
Typically 0.5 to 2cm in diameter, shell
shaped to kidney shaped and often with a
slightly scalloped margin, the cap is initially
white, turning creamy-ochre with age;
laterally attached to its substrate - usually
small twigs or branches among leaf litter -
via its cap, rather than with a stipe. Infertile
surface smooth to finely downy.
Gills
The gills, which radiate from the point of
attachment, are widely spaced; some gills
forking. White at first, they gradually turn
pinkish brown or dingy yellowish-pink.
Basidia 4-spored.
Stem
Almost invariably this little woodland
mushroom has no stipe (stem) at all.

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Spores Subglobose, ornamented with
minute spiny warts
Spore print
Pinkish buff.
Odour/tasteNot distinctive.
Habitat & Ecological role
Saprobic, on rotting fallen twigs and
branches in deciduous and sometimes
coniferous woodlands and at the bases of
hedgerows.
Natural Habitat
Most of the Crepidotus species are considered as inedible. They are non-poisonous;
however, not worth for the culinary aspects as too small and thin-fleshed. Very
little information is known about its edibility as mycologists have no data to assess
edibility

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Tremella fuciformis
Tremella fuciformis, an edible medicinal mushroom, is commonly known as
snow fungus, snow ear, silver ear fungus, and white jelly mushroom
Scientific
Classification
Kindom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Tremellomycetes
Order Tremellales
Family Tremellaceae
Genus Tremella
Species T. fuciformis

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It parasitic on the mycelium of
Hypoxylon archeri and closely related
species--or potentially saprobic on the
dead wood of hardwoods and involved
in an undetermined symbiosis with
the Hypoxylon (the fungi could, for
example, be decomposing components
of the wood that the other fungus can't
decompose, enabling each other);
growing alone or gregariously
with Hypoxylon fruiting bodies
frequently nearby; summer and fall;
tropical and subtropical in distribution

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Japanese name Medicinal effects
Shirokikurage • Cough,
• Sore throat,
• constipation,
• paramenia
Body: Gelatinous but fairly firm;
composed of graceful lobes; translucent
whitish; up to about 7 cm across and 4 cm
high; surface smooth and shiny.
Spore Print: White.

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Pluteus cervinus Scientific
Classification
Kindom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Basidiomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Pluteaceae
Genus Pluteus
Species P. cervinus

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Cap: 4.5-10 cm; convex at first, becoming broadly convex to
nearly flat, with or without a broad central bump; tacky
when fresh, but soon dry, or slightly sticky when wet; shiny;
bald, or finely scaly/fibrillose over the center; often radially
streaked; dark to pale brown, often with a hint of olive or
gray--or occasionally nearly whitish, with a brown to
brownish center; the margin usually not lined, but
sometimes faintly lined in older, diminutive specimens.
Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills
frequent; white at first, becoming pink and eventually
becoming deep flesh color.
Stem: 5-13 cm long; 5-15 mm thick; more or less equal, or
with an enlarged base; dry; bald or, more often, finely
fibrillose with brownish fibrils; whitish, discoloring
brownish near the base;
basal mycelium: white.
Flesh: Soft; white; unchanging when sliced.

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Pluteus cervinus is usually a woodland species,
and is not generally found on woodchips in
urban areas; Pluteus petasatus is the common
and widespread woodchip species.
Natural Habitat
Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods and,
less often, conifers; occasionally appearing
terrestrial but actually arising from buried
deadwood; growing alone, scattered, or
gregariously
Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, or
somewhat radishlike; taste usually at least
slightly radishlike.
Chemical Reactions: KOH negative to very
pale orange on cap surface.
Spore Print: Brownish pink.

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Scientific
Classification
Kindom Fungi
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Agaricomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Pleurotaceae
Genus Pleurotus
Species P. ostreatus
Pleurotus ostreatus

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Cap: 3–15 cm across; broadly convex, becoming
flat or shallowly depressed; kidney-shaped to
fan-shaped in outline, or nearly round if
growing on the tops of logs; pale to dark
brown; fading to buff; sometimes fading slowly
and becoming two-toned; the margin
somewhat rolled when young.
Gills: Running down the stem (or
pseudostem); close; short-gills frequent;
whitish or with a gray tinge, becoming
yellowish in age and sometimes developing
brownish edges; often filled with black beetles,
in my collecting areas.
Stem: Usually rudimentary and lateral (or
nearly absent) when mushrooms are growing
from the sides of logs or trees, but sometimes
more or less central when growing on the tops
of logs or branches, whitish; hairy to velvety;
tough.

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Flesh: Thick; white; unchanging when sliced.
Odor and Taste Odor distinctive but hard to describe (see above); taste mild.
Spore Print: White to faintly yellowish.
Natural Habitat
Pleurotus ostreatus is easily recognized by the way it grows on wood in shelf-like
clusters; its relatively large size; its whitish gills that run down a stubby, nearly-
absent stem; and its whitish to lilac spore print.

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Polyporous fungus

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Fungi Goodies
Agaricus Bisporus

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Button Mushroom Velouté
Ingredients
•6 cups button mushrooms
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 onions (medium yellow
sliced)
• 2 tablespoons cognac
• 4 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cups cream
• white pepper
• salt
• parsley
French cuisine

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Philly Cheesesteak
Ingredients
2 hoagie rolls (sliced)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 green bell pepper (sliced)
1/2 onion (sliced)
4 button mushrooms (sliced)
1 pound rib steaks
salt
pepper
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
4 slices white American cheese
Cuisine:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Ingredients
1 pound ground beef
3 cloves garlic (minced)
1 cup button
mushrooms (chopped, 3-4
medium)
1 onion (medium, chopped)
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 can diced tomatoes (796 mL)
2 cans tomato paste (156 mL)
9 lasagna noodles (Barilla, half of a
454g box)
3 cups cottage cheese
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons dried parsley
2 large eggs (beaten)
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 pound mozzarella
cheese (grated)
Cuisine: Italian
Lasagna

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for
Watching