The hidden world of fungi, up close.
6 fungi drawn live in your browser, true to their published descriptions and real photographs. Turn one, look under its cap, switch off the lights and see which ones glow.
The collection
Shelved by the shape of the fruiting body.
No fungus by that name in the atlas yet.
Gilled mushrooms3
A cap on a stipe, with gills underneath that release the spores.
Cup fungi1
An open cup lined with the spore-bearing layer, which fires its spores into the air in a visible puff.
Cage stinkhorns1
A hollow lattice that hatches from an egg in a few hours, smeared with a smelly slime that flies carry off with the spores.
Jelly fungi1
No cap and no gills: a soft, wobbling body that dries to a hard crust and swells again in the rain.
