We hope that the information and photos will help you learn more about the wild mushrooms you might see on a winter visit.
Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies, or reproductive structures, of some types of fungi.
Throughout the season, we offer mushroom talks and walks by local experts, and interpretive signs are posted wherever the mushrooms appear. Come visit the Gardens and take advantage of the 80-plus species of mushrooms to be found right here on our grounds. Many of the mushrooms found in the Gardens are poisonous. Positive identification for the purposes of collecting and eating mushrooms is outside the scope of this guide. Entolomataceae Clitopilus prunulus Sweetbread Mushroom Entolomataceae Leptonia sp.