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Fungi

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Nature Atlas. "Fungi." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/species/fungi.

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Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Fungi. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/species/fungi

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-fungi,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Fungi},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/species/fungi},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Kingdom Fungi: organisms that absorb nutrients from their surroundings rather than photosynthesizing or ingesting food, including mushrooms, molds, yeasts and lichens formed jointly with an alga or cyanobacterium. A kingdom of its own, distinct from plants, despite the historical habit of grouping fungi with them.

Albatrellus subrubescens

Amanita Muscaria

Amethyst Deceiver

Armillaria ostoyae

Artist's Conk

Aspergillus

Aspergillus Niger

Basket Stinkhorn

Bay Bolete

Beauveria

Beefsteak Fungus

Bicolored Deceiver (Laccaria bicolor)

Birch Polypore

Bird's Nest Fungus

Black Bread Mold

Black Knot Fungus

Blastomyces

Bleeding Tooth Fungus (Hydnellum peckii)

Boletus edulis

Bracket Fungus

British Soldiers Lichen

Caesar's Mushroom

Candida

Candida tropicalis

Cartilage Lichen

Caterpillar Fungus

Cauliflower Fungus

Chaga

Chanterelle

Charcoal Burner

Chestnut Blight Fungus

Chicken of the Woods

Chytrid Fungus

Cladonia coccifera

Claviceps Purpurea

Clavulina cristata

Coccidioides

Coffee Rust

Common Ink Cap

Common Morel

Common Orange Lichen

Common Puffball

Cordyceps

Cordyceps Militaris

Corn Smut

Cryptococcus

Dead Man's Fingers

Deadly Dapperling

Deadly Galerina

Deadly Webcap

Death Cap

Destroying Angel

Dog Lichen

Dry Rot Fungus

Dutch Elm Disease Fungus

Earthstar

Elfin Saddle (Helvella crispa)

Enokitake

Ergot

Exidia pithya

Fairy Ring Mushroom

False Morel

Fly Agaric

Fly-killing Fungus (Entomophthora muscae)

Fomitopsis Pinicola

Giant Puffball

Giant Termite Mushroom

Hammered Shield Lichen

Hedgehog Mushroom

Hen of the Woods

Hericium erinaceus

Histoplasma

Honey Fungus

Horse Mushroom

Hydnum repandum

Hypsizygus ulmarius

Iceland Moss

Jack-o'-lantern Mushroom

King Trumpet Mushroom

Lactarius lignyotus