#pluteaceae

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Pluteus sp.

25-JUL-2025

Lysterfield Park, Melbourne, Vic

[oliviarosaline]

Deer mushroom

Pluteus sp.

Aug. 18th, 2023

Growing in old growth bottomland woods.

Arnold, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[drhoz]

#2234 - Pluteus sp. - Deer Mushrooms

The genus was created in 1837, when agaric fungi were first being split apart, and may refer to the Latin 'pluteus' as used to mean a shield.

A large genus of wood-rotting mushrooms with over 300 species, distinguished from similar genera by the pink spores, gills free from the stipe, and almost always lack of a ring or volva. Under a microscope they often have abundant, distinctive cystidia cells on the gills, and roughly egg-shaped spores.

Some Pluteus are edible including P. petasatus and P. cervinus, but do not rate highly, and others contain psilocybin.

Huka Falls, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand