Beech mushroom
Hypsizygus marmoreus · 蟹味菇
Common离褶伞科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap grayish brown, marbled with mottled patterning
- Grows in a large cluster; stem white
- Wild specimens grow on dead hardwood
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 离褶伞科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 2–7 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Dead hardwood such as beech
Fun Fact
The marbled pattern on its cap gives the beech mushroom its name; the white 'bunashimeji' sold alongside it is just a pale strain of the same species.
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