Fungi Wheels: A Visual Learner’s Gateway to Over 2,800 Mushroom Species

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If you're a visual learner and want to sharpen your mushroom ID skills, here are some helpful key wheels with lots of examples of different fungi.

It includes more than 2,800 species distributed on more than 1,000 genera and illustrated with more than 10,000 pictures.

The mushrooms shown are mostly from temperate Europe, but the morphological features used for identification apply to Malaysian species, too. It's a great way to see how mushrooms are grouped. 

DOWNLOAD FUNGI WHEELS - over 90 pages of wheels (~182.2MB).


An example of one of the wheels displaying types of truffle-like fungus.


An example of one of the wheels displaying types of Lactarioid fungus.


An example of one of the wheels displaying types of Tricholomatoid fungus.

Hi, I'm Joe, a mushroom hunter, traveler, and photographer who shares his stories and photos of fungi. With a sharp eye for spotting different mushroom species and a passion for exploring their habitats, I offer readers a unique window into the world of mycology.

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