On Food and Cooking

spores are contained in the thick masses of
tissue between the vein-like folds.

Mushroom    Types   and Qualities

Mushrooms    are     grouped     by  broad   family

relationships.  Most    edible  mushrooms   bear

their   spores  on  gills.

Mushrooms   with    Gills

Common

mushrooms

White,  button

Brown,

cremini,

portobello

Champignon,

field   Almond

Cultivated

leaf    and

dung

decomposers

Almond

flavor

Agaricus

species A.

bisporus    var.

alba A.

bisporus    var.

avellanea

Agaricus

campestris

Agaricus

subrufescens

Oyster, tree Cultivated wood

decomposers

Pleurotus

species