Matchmaker:
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Cap Checkboxes
Cap Shape
| Convex | regularly rounded, domed, like an inverted bowl, will match with 'convex', 'hemispheric', 'dome', or 'round' |
| Conical | shaped like a cone with the point at the top, will match with 'conic' or 'obtuse' |
| Spherical | having the form of a sphere or globe, will match with 'spherical', 'round', or 'globose' |
| Cylindric | higher than broad, and of more or less the same diameter throughout its height, as in the shaggy mane, will match with 'cylindric', 'cylindrical', 'oval', 'ovate', or 'acorn' |
| Bellshaped | in the shape of a bell (like the Liberty bell), with rounded top and flaring lower edges, will match with 'bell' |
| Umbonate | having a raised knob or mound at the center of the cap, will match with 'umbo', 'boss', 'knob', or 'papilla' |
| Flat | expanded to horizontal, the margin being on more or less the same level as the center, same as plane or applanate, will match with 'flat', 'plane', or 'applanate' |
| Depressed | the middle of the cap is sunken lower than the highest part of the cap, will match with 'depressed', 'sunken', 'funnel-shaped', 'vase-shaped', 'uplifted', 'upraised', 'upcurved', 'revolute', or 'umbilicate' |
| Umbilicate | refers to a cap with a narrow, moderate to deep depression in center which may or may not have a small umbo in the bottom, will match with 'umbilicate' |
| Semicircular | shaped like half a circle, will match with 'semicircular', 'dimidiate', 'shell', 'mussel', 'kidney' |
| Spathulate | shaped like a spatula or spoon, oblong with a narrowing base, will match with 'spathulate', 'spatula', 'spoon', 'petal-shaped' |
| Kidney | shaped like the outline of a kidney; will match with 'kidney', 'bean', 'semicircular', 'mussel', or 'shell' |
| Fanshaped | shaped like a fan in outline, not necessarily pleated, will match with 'fan-shaped', 'scallop' |
Cap Colour
| White | will match with ivory, pallid, silver, white, whitish |
| Cream | will match with cream, ivory, very pale yellow |
| Yellow | will match with amber, citrine, cream, golden, honey, saffron, sandy, straw, yellow, yellowish |
| Orange | will match with amber, apricot, orange, peach, saffron, vermilion |
| Red | will match with cinnabar, crimson, magenta, maroon, red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion |
| Pink | includes any shade of pink as well as the pinkish brown spore color of the Entolomataceae family, will match with flesh, incarnate, magenta, peach, pink, rose, salmon |
| Wine | will match with wine-colored, winy, vinaceous |
| Violet / Blue | will match with lavender, lilac, mauve, purple, violet, violaceous, blue, bluish, livid, turquoise, bluish green |
| Green / Olive | will match with green, greenish, olivaceous, olive, turquoise |
| Gray | will match with cinereous, dingy, drab, dusky, gray, grayish, silver, slate, slaty, fuliginous, fuscous, livid, smoky, sooty |
| Any Brown | will match with argillaceous, avellaneous, bay, bister, bistre, brick, brown, brownish, chestnut, cinnamon, clay, coffee, dingy, drab, ferruginous, foxy, fuliginous, fulvous, fuscous, hazel, honey, isabelline, rufous, rusty, russet, sienna, sepia, tawny, umber |
| Light Brown / Buff | a pale yellow toned with gray-brown, i.e. a dingy yellowish brown or very pale tan, will match with alutaceous, beige, buff, buffy, fawn, honey, leather, pinkish buff, sandy, tan |
| Yellow Brown | between buff and orange brown, will match with argillaceous, brownish yellow, clay, honey, isabelline, ochraceous, ochre, tawny, yellowish brown |
| Orange Brown / Cinnamon | between yellow brown and red brown; will match with foxy, tawny, fulvous, orange brown, cinnamon, pinkish cinnamon, argillaceous, clay-colored, fulvous, sayal-brown |
| Red Brown | will match with bay, brick, chestnut, ferruginous, maroon, raw sienna, rufous, rust, rusty, russet, cinnamon |
| Purple Brown / Wine Brown | will match with purple brown, violet brown, violaceous brown, wine brown, vinaceous brown |
| Olive Brown | will match with olive brown, olivaceous brown |
| Gray Brown | will match with fuscous, gray brown, grayish brown, avellaneous, wood brown, drab |
| Dark Brown | will match with blackish brown, chocolate brown, dark brown, fuscous, umber |
| Black | will match with black, blackish, sooty |
Cap Surface
| Dry | surface not sticky or slimy or hygrophanous, feeling as if there is no moisture on surface; will match with 'dry' |
| Moist | feeling as if there is moisture on surface but not greasy (lubricous), sticky (viscid) or slimy; will match with 'moist' or 'damp' |
| Greasy | slippery or oily but not viscid (sticky) or slimy, same as lubricous; will match with 'greasy', 'lubricous', 'soapy', or 'slippery' |
| Sticky (Viscid) | viscid but not lubricous or slimy: the mushroom usually feels somewhat slimy or slippery when wet but when dry may need to be wetted slightly to feel sticky; will match with 'sticky', 'viscid', 'tacky', 'gluey' or 'mucilaginous' |
| Slimy | having a thick layer of slime, more than viscid or glutinous, but here will match with glutinous, will match with 'slimy', 'slime', 'glutinous' or 'gluten' |
| Hygrophanous | cap surface changing color markedly as it dries, usually having a water-soaked appearance when wet and turning a lighter opaque color on drying, will match with 'hygrophanous' |
| Wrinkled | with small irregular creases or ridges, will match with 'wrinkled', 'rugose', 'rugulose', or 'shriveled' |
| Peeling | cap cuticles peels easily from flesh, will match with 'peeling' or 'separable' |
| Spotted | with roundish areas different in color from the rest of the surface, will match with 'spot', 'dot', or 'punctate' |
| Pitted | with small depressions, will match with 'pit', 'pitted', or 'scrobiculate' (scrobiculae being large shallowly-sunken often wet-looking depressions) |
| Cracked | surface having split in some way, will match with 'crack', 'rimose', and 'areolate' (the last meaning cracked into blocks like dried mud), matches also with 'mud-cracked', does not match with margin that merely splits radially |
| Warty | with bumpy outgrowth which is small and generally slightly wider than high, often a remnant of the universal veil, will match with 'wart', 'warty' |
| Zonate | with circular bands of differing colors or ornamentation, will match with 'zones' or 'zonate' |
| Bald | no warts or hairs, or raised scales, fibers or patches, same as glabrous and as used here equivalent to naked, will match with 'bald', 'glabrous', 'smooth', 'naked' |
| Streaked | showing thin lines of different color or texture from the background, will match with 'streaks' or 'streaked' |
| Fibrillose | showing fine fibers called fibrils which may or may not be raised from surface, fibrillose, will match with 'thread', 'fibril', or 'fibrillose' |
| Scaly | having pieces of tissue on surface that are not especially elongated, differentiated from surface by color or by projecting from it, will match with 'appressed scales', 'scurfy', 'squamose', or 'squamulose' |
| Erect Scales | having pieces of tissue on surface that is not especially elongated, differentiated from surface by projecting from it at right angles (erect) or bending even further up (recurved), will match with 'erect scales', 'upturned scales', or 'recurved scales' |
| Silky | smooth and shining like silk, will match with 'silk' or 'satin' |
| Velvety | with the appearance of velvet, will match with 'velvety', 'velutinous', or 'felty' |
| Woolly | with the appearance of unspun wool, will match with 'woolly', 'cottony', 'villose', 'floccose', 'flocculose', 'felty', 'tomentose', 'tomentulose', 'bearded', 'downy', and 'pubescent', note some of these also match with 'hairy' |
| Fine Hairs | with fine or even coarse hairs (hand lens may be necessary), will match with 'hairy', 'hispid', 'hirsute', 'strigose', 'felty', 'tomentose', 'tomentulose', 'villose', 'downy', 'pubescent', note some of these also match with woolly |
| Frosted | with a delicate covering like frost on a window, not obscuring the underlying color; will match with 'frosted', 'hoary', or 'bloom' |
| Pruinose | looking finely powdered or very finely granular, will match with 'powder', 'powdery', 'pruinose', 'pruinate' |
| Granular | covered with granules, coarser than pruinose, will match with 'powder', 'granular', 'granules', 'grains', 'bran', 'scurfy', 'mealy', or 'flour' |
| Flecks | small particles on surface which are larger than granules, will match with 'flecks', 'floccules', 'flakes', 'fragments', 'furfuraceous', 'scurf', 'mealy', or 'bran' |
| Patches | a large or irregular area on surface, differing in color or texture from the rest of the surface, will match with 'patch', 'blotch', 'splash', 'mottled', or 'fragments' |
Cap Margin
| Striate | cap margin marked with lines or fine grooves which may be parallel or radiating, from gills showing through the cap; will match with 'striate', 'translucent-striate', 'lined', 'grooved', 'furrowed', 'sulcate', 'ribbed', 'plicate', 'pleated', 'corrugate' |
| Grooved | cap margin furrowed (sulcate) radially, will match with 'grooved', 'furrowed', 'sulcate', 'ribbed', 'plicate', 'pleated', 'corrugate', 'fluted', or 'tuberculate' |
| Incurved | cap margin, curved inwards toward stem, but less than inrolled, here however matches also with inrolled, will match with 'incurved', 'inrolled', 'inflexed', 'involute', 'decurved', 'downcurved', 'downturned' |
| Exceeding | the edge of the cap extending beyond the gills, will match with 'exceeds gills', 'extends past gills' |
| Wavy | the edge of the cap showing wavelike curves; will match with wavy or undulate; will match with 'wavy', 'undulating', or 'frilled' |
| Lobed | with rather large, rounded divisions on the cap margin, will match with 'lobes' or 'lobed' |
| Scalloped | with notched edge or rounded teeth, (crenate or if finely scalloped crenulate), will match with 'scallops', 'scalloped', 'crenate', or 'crenulate' |
| Toothed | with toothed margin, will match with 'toothed', 'serrate', 'serrulate', 'dentate', 'denticulate' |
| Appendiculate | margin of cap fringed with hanging fragments of the veil; will match with 'appendiculate', 'marginal veil remnants', 'hanging veil remnants' |
| Fringed | with a border of parallel threads or fibers, so that the edge is somewhat jagged and not smooth, same as fimbriate, will match with 'fringe', 'fimbriate', 'ciliate', or 'bearded' |