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Cap shapes and gill attachment

This post shows the varieties of cap shapes and gill attachments of the "typical" mushroom with gills.

With the "typical" mushroom I mean fruitbodies of fungi that have caps and are not morel or saddle mushrooms.

While most of these "typical" mushrooms have gills, a lot can also have pores or teeth under the cap, but these are mostly just called pores and teeth, and are not distinguished by gill attachment, because well...they are not gills.

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Cap (pileus) shapes

Gill (lamella) attachment

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I just realised that in posts I just throw around the names of cap shapes and gill attachments without actually explaining what it looks like so that is why I made this post.

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