Mushroom terms

the umbrella or bell-like ‘hat’ of the mushroom. Holds the spores in either gills or pores, wrinkles or teeth

blade-like or leaf-like plate on which spores are produced, beneath the cap of an agaric

stalk or stem of the fruiting body of the fungus

A protective layer of tissue that may cover all, part or none of a mushroom

Gills that are adnexed (reaching to the stem, but not attached to it)

Gills that are adnate (broadly attached to the stem) or emarginate (same height for most of its length, then becomes shallower just before reaching the stem.)

Gills that are sinuate (just like emarginate gills, except they curve back down the stem for a little bit just before attaching.)

whole gill extends down the stem

Gills that reach the stem

Shorter gills that may go halfway or just a short distance from the margin

when the edges of the gill is differently pigmented than the face of the gills

Stalkless mushrooms

Usually attached to a substrate like wood, living or dead herbacious plants, or another fungus

If the stalk is attached at the margin of the cap

Usually are found on woody substrates

Off-center stalk

unadorned stems

Veil that covers the gills and then leaves a ring (annulus)

Veil that covers the entire fruit body

Evidence can be found as a freely removable wartlike patches on the cap