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Glen and Susan started Mushroom Foraging on 22 Sept 2013 by taking a foraging tour with Chef Robin of Swallowtail Tours in Lynn Valley, BC. Since then we've been finding mushrooms everywhere we look - to the extent that it is now impossible to simply "go for a walk in the park"! We sometimes miss the ocean and mountains and forest all around us because our eyes are focused on the ground!

The following table provides information about every mushroom we THINK we have found. But be warned, identification of many species is very difficult and if you are wrong, it can be toxic or maybe even deadly. We have no useful expertise in mushroom identification yet, and the Confidence value in the table points out how confident (or not) we think we are of our identifications. You'll notice that for most of them we're not very confident! The information on edibility may be correct IF AND ONLY IF the mushroom ID is correct

You should not use this web page as a knowlegable resource, and any use of this material is at your own risk.

Our primary resources are:

"All that the Rain Promises, and More..." a 250 page pocket guide by David Arora, 1991, ISBN-13: 978-0-89815-388-0
"Mushrooms Demystified", 2nd Edition by David Arora, 1986, 958 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0-89815-169-5
"Mushrooms of BC", 2021 by Andy MacKinnon and Kem Luther, 500 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0-77267-955-0
Danny's DNA Discoveries for up to the minute latest DNA info on Pacific NorthWest mushrooms
Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC. Links are provided below to the relevant page in this eFlora, but not all species are included in this reference yet.
UBC Biodiversity - Mushrooms Up!
Keys to Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
MatchMaker - Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest V2.4.1 in 2022 (900 Mb)
Mushroom Expert.COM
North American Fungi
Vancouver Mycological Society
And 3 Facebook groups: Pacific Northwest Mushroom Identification Forum and BC Lower Mainland Mushroom Enthusiasts and Mushroom Identification

If you can offer any suggestions to correct or improve the identification of these mushrooms, please feel free to contact me at fungi --at-- glenbodie.com

In the large table below showing all the mushrooms:

click on any row to show/hide the detailed information for that mushroom
click here to show/hide the details for the whole list or show all or hide all.
the descriptions given represent only the specific samples we saw and are not intended to represent the 'true' or 'official' description of the species
the notes under 'Can I eat it?' are extracted from various book and online sources and we offer no warranty that they are correct
if there is a 'See Also' line click on the other mushroom numbers there to see other similar specimens
in the detailed information - mouse over any image to see the description (may not work on mobile devices)
in the detailed information - click on any image to see it full size in a new browser tab or window

There are specimens in the database. Start viewing at Mushroom # with entries per page.

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Use the following two selection lists to find a particular mushroom by either the
Common Name or the scientific binomial name

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