Natural science # Mycology posters Explore illustrated mycology posters, mushroom identification guides, and fungal comparisons, with descriptions and full-resolution images. [\[Seven labelled photographs and an aquarelle comparing smooth, scaly, and subtly patterned caps of sphagnicolous Arrhenia species.\](\) ## Cap textures of sphagnicolous Arrhenia species]() Poster description The panels compare Arrhenia bigelowii, gerardiana, philonotis, and telmatiaea. They show obvious scales, a smooth mature desquamated cap, subtle embedded scale patterns, fine hairs, and lighter or darker adpressed scale patterns. Scale bars represent 10 millimetres. [Open full resolution]() [\[French identification chart comparing three Amanita species by cap, ring, stem, bulb, and volva features.\](\) ## Amanita rubescens, Amanita excelsa var. spissa, and Amanita pantherina comparison (JPEG)]() Poster description Amanita rubescens is marked edible but toxic raw or undercooked and is distinguished by pink or wine tones and reddening wounds. Amanita excelsa var. spissa is discouraged and toxic raw or undercooked, with a gray-brown cap, map-like patches, a striated ring, and turnip odor. Amanita pantherina is toxic, with pure-white cap warts, a striated cap margin, an unstriated ring, and a ridged volva. [Open full resolution]() [\[French identification chart comparing three Amanita species by cap, ring, stem, bulb, and volva features.\](\) ## Amanita rubescens, Amanita excelsa var. spissa, and Amanita pantherina comparison (WebP)]() Poster description Amanita rubescens is marked edible but toxic raw or undercooked and is distinguished by pink or wine tones and reddening wounds. Amanita excelsa var. spissa is discouraged and toxic raw or undercooked, with a gray-brown cap, map-like patches, a striated ring, and turnip odor. Amanita pantherina is toxic, with pure-white cap warts, a striated cap margin, an unstriated ring, and a ridged volva. [Open full resolution]() [\[French chart comparing morels, half-free morels, Verpa species, and Gyromitra with photographs and longitudinal sections.\](\) ## Morels, Verpas, and Gyromitra comparison]() Poster description Blond and black morels have pitted caps joined to the stem; Morchella semilibera has a cap attached halfway down. Verpa bohemica and Verpa conica have caps attached only at the stem tip. These groups are labelled edible but toxic raw. Gyromitra is labelled toxic to deadly and has a brain-like cap with irregular internal cavities. [Open full resolution]() [\[French guide comparing Neoboletus erythropus, Suillellus luridus, Rubroboletus satanas, and Caloboletus calopus.\](\) ## Four red- and yellow-pored boletes compared]() Poster description Neoboletus erythropus has a brown cap, red pores, a punctate stem, and intense blue staining. Suillellus luridus has orange pores, a reticulate stem, and intense blue staining. Toxic Rubroboletus satanas has a whitish cap, red pores, and medium blue staining. Bitter Caloboletus calopus has a whitish cap, yellow pores, a yellow-to-red reticulate stem, and medium blue staining. [Open full resolution]() [\[French poster contrasting Satan’s bolete and the red-footed bolete by cap color, blue staining, and stem texture.\](\) ## Rubroboletus satanas and Neoboletus erythropus comparison]() Poster description Rubroboletus satanas is shown with medium blue staining, a white cap, a netted stem, and a warning symbol. Neoboletus erythropus is shown with intense blue staining, a brown cap, a smooth or punctate stem, and a label requiring 20 minutes of cooking. [Open full resolution]() [\[Illustrated version 3.0 chart classifying European boletes by edibility, toxicity, rarity, staining, and stem characteristics.\](\) ## European Boletes species guide, version 3.0]() Poster description The chart groups illustrated boletes as ceps, choice edibles, mediocre edibles, not edible, poisonous, poisonous raw, and inedible. An anatomy panel labels cap, cuticle, tubes, pores, flesh, stem, and mycelium. Stem ornamentation examples include smooth, netted, scabered, dotted, granulated, and false-netted surfaces. The legend explains oxidation, rarity, and toxicity. [Open full resolution]() [\[Illustrated version 2.5 chart grouping European bolete species by edibility, toxicity, and identification traits.\](\) ## The European Boletes chart, version 2.5]() Poster description Species are grouped as ceps, choice edibles, mediocre edibles, worthless edibles, poisonous, poisonous raw, and inedible. A recognition panel labels cap, pores, stem, cuticle, and flesh. The legend explains staining, rarity, laxative cuticle, fibrous stems, and variable toxicity, and the poster advises recording habitat, staining, smell, and taste. [Open full resolution]() [\[Pink cutaway diagram of a budding fungal cell with its principal organelles labelled.\](\) ## Labelled budding fungal cell]() Poster description A smaller bud is separated from the parent cell by a septum, with a bud scar at the base. Labels identify vesicles, Golgi apparatus, vacuole, cytoplasm, cell wall, mitochondrion, cell membrane, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, nucleolus, and nucleus. [Open full resolution]() [\[Detailed cutaway of a budding fungal cell labelling its boundaries, organelles, septum, and bud scar.\](\) ## Fungal cell structures]() Poster description A parent cell and smaller bud are separated by a septum. Labels identify the cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, vesicle, ribosomes, Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, smooth ER, nucleus, nucleolus, mitochondrion, vacuole, lysosome, peroxisome, and bud scar. [Open full resolution]() [\[Detailed phylogenetic tree of major fungal lineages with representative mushrooms, moulds, lichens, yeasts, and microscopic forms.\](\) ## Fungal tree of life]() Poster description The central Dikarya branch divides into Basidiomycota and Ascomycota, with representative mushrooms, boletes, brackets, rusts, smuts, cup fungi, morels, truffles, lichens, moulds, and yeasts. Lower branches show Entorrhizomycota, Zoopagomycota, Mucoromycota, Blastocladiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Sanchytriomycota, Aphelida, and Opisthosporidia. Dashed branches indicate proposed relationships. [Open full resolution]() [\[Simplified branching diagram of five traditional fungal phyla, with representative forms and Animalia for comparison.\](\) ## Five phyla of fungi]() Poster description The tree labels Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Glomeromycota, Zygomycota, and Chytridiomycota, illustrated respectively by mushrooms, a morel, branching hyphae with round structures, upright sporangia, and a microscopic branching form. Animalia appears as a comparison branch. [Open full resolution]() [\[Illustrated French poster arranging Cantharellus, Craterellus, and Gomphus species by genus and rarity.\](\) ## Girolles and chanterelles of France]() Poster description The Cantharellus section contains seven girolles, the Craterellus section contains eight chanterelles and trumpets, and the Gomphus section contains two violet chanterelles. The legend marks species as common, unusual, or rare and advises against collecting rare species for consumption. [Open full resolution]() [\[Cutaway mushroom diagram labelling cap, spore-bearing surfaces, stem structures, volva, and mycelial threads.\](\) ## Mushroom anatomy and surface features]() Poster description Cap features include scales, zonations, areolae, and striations. Spore-bearing surfaces include tubes, pores, teeth, and gills. Stem structures include the ring or skirt, stipe, reticulum, scales, volva, basal bulb, and branching mycelial threads. [Open full resolution]() [\[Twenty-one stylised mushroom sections comparing cap, flesh, stem, and stem-base colors among European xerocomoid boletes.\](\) ## European xerocomoid species cross-section guide]() Poster description Three rows compare species in Xerocomus, Imleria, Pulchroboletus, Alessioporus, Rheubarbariboletus, Hortiboletus, and Xerocomellus. Colored longitudinal sections distinguish each species by internal cap, flesh, stem, and stem-base patterns. [Open full resolution]() --- Content language: en. [HTML page](). 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