Gilled Mushrooms (Agarics)

This group gathers Fungi subcategory members that are gilled mushrooms in the broad, everyday sense, centered on the order Agaricales, fungi whose fruiting body has a cap held on a central stem with thin, blade-like gills radiating underneath it where spores are produced. It spans the fly agaric, one of the most recognizable mushrooms in the world for its red, white-spotted cap, the panther cap and other members of the genus Amanita, a genus containing both prized edibles and some of the deadliest poisonous mushrooms known, edible milkcaps such as the candy cap and the ugly milkcap, the common ink cap, notorious for a severe reaction when eaten alongside alcohol, and the chanterelle, gathered here as the closest common-shape fit even though its own order, Cantharellales, produces shallow ridges rather than true blade-like gills. Most members here form a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship with the roots of living trees, called mycorrhiza, trading soil nutrients and water for sugars the tree produces through photosynthesis.