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Mushrooms in Florida
Updated October 2026 · from open GBIF records
35,430mushroom records
38county pages
Junbusiest month
35,430 records since 1845 (7,275 in the last 10 years)
Fruiting now
Based on past sightings (mostly since 2011; all years where recent records are few), not a forecast. Weather and place matter a lot, and a listing here says nothing about whether a mushroom is safe.
Usually recorded in January in this state:
Hexagonia hydnoides54 January records since 2011
Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus42 January records since 2011- Cubamyces lactineus37 January records since 2011
Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune30 January records since 2011
Jack O'Lantern Mushroom Omphalotus subilludens18 January records since 2011
Crowded Parchment Stereum complicatum17 January records since 2011
Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina17 January records since 2011
Earliella scabrosa15 January records since 2011
Usually recorded in February in this state:
- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus36 February records since 2011
- Hexagonia hydnoides24 February records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus22 February records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune16 February records since 2011
- Earliella scabrosa14 February records since 2011
False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum7 February records since 2011
Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus6 February records since 2011
Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum5 February records since 2011
Usually recorded in March in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides26 March records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus20 March records since 2011
- Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus14 March records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune14 March records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum12 March records since 2011
- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus10 March records since 2011
- Earliella scabrosa9 March records since 2011
Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus6 March records since 2011
Usually recorded in April in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides37 April records since 2011
- Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus14 April records since 2011
- Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum13 April records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune13 April records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus9 April records since 2011
Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii8 April records since 2011
False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites5 April records since 2011- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus5 April records since 2011
Usually recorded in May in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides18 May records since 2011
- Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus14 May records since 2011
- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus10 May records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites10 May records since 2011
Plantpot Dapperling Leucocoprinus birnbaumii9 May records since 2011
Cage Stinkhorn, Caribbean Stinkhorn, Red Cage Stinkhorn Clathrus crispus7 May records since 2011- Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum7 May records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii6 May records since 2011
Usually recorded in June in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides34 June records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii26 June records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites22 June records since 2011
- Fringed Sawgill Lentinus crinitus15 June records since 2011
- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus14 June records since 2011
Wandering Creamsicle Marasmius vagus11 June records since 2011- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum9 June records since 2011
- Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum9 June records since 2011
Usually recorded in July in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides38 July records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii24 July records since 2011
Fragile Dapperling Leucocoprinus fragilissimus18 July records since 2011- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus16 July records since 2011
- Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum15 July records since 2011
- Plantpot Dapperling Leucocoprinus birnbaumii15 July records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites15 July records since 2011
- Cage Stinkhorn, Caribbean Stinkhorn, Red Cage Stinkhorn Clathrus crispus12 July records since 2011
Usually recorded in August in this state:
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites35 August records since 2011
- Cage Stinkhorn, Caribbean Stinkhorn, Red Cage Stinkhorn Clathrus crispus28 August records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii22 August records since 2011
- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus17 August records since 2011
- Hexagonia hydnoides17 August records since 2011
- Wandering Creamsicle Marasmius vagus16 August records since 2011
- Plantpot Dapperling Leucocoprinus birnbaumii12 August records since 2011
Luxuriant Thoughshank Collybiopsis luxurians10 August records since 2011
Usually recorded in September in this state:
- Cage Stinkhorn, Caribbean Stinkhorn, Red Cage Stinkhorn Clathrus crispus38 September records since 2011
- Hexagonia hydnoides38 September records since 2011
- Wandering Creamsicle Marasmius vagus29 September records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites24 September records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii21 September records since 2011
- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus21 September records since 2011
- Plantpot Dapperling Leucocoprinus birnbaumii16 September records since 2011
Pineapple Bolete Boletellus ananas9 September records since 2011
Usually recorded in October in this state:
Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa68 October records since 2011- Hexagonia hydnoides29 October records since 2011
- False Parasol Chlorophyllum molybdites15 October records since 2011
- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii14 October records since 2011
Exsudoporus floridanus8 October records since 2011- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune8 October records since 2011
- Cage Stinkhorn, Caribbean Stinkhorn, Red Cage Stinkhorn Clathrus crispus8 October records since 2011
- Tropical White Polypore Favolus tenuiculus7 October records since 2011
Usually recorded in November in this state:
- Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa49 November records since 2011
- Hexagonia hydnoides42 November records since 2011
Blue Lactarius Lactarius indigo15 November records since 2011- Golden Reishi Ganoderma curtisii10 November records since 2011
Flamingo Chanterelle Cantharellus coccolobae10 November records since 2011- Ganoderma Butt Rot Ganoderma zonatum10 November records since 2011
- False Turkeytail Stereum lobatum9 November records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus8 November records since 2011
Usually recorded in December in this state:
- Hexagonia hydnoides52 December records since 2011
- Column Stinkhorn Clathrus columnatus29 December records since 2011
- Common Porecrust, Split Gill Fungus Schizophyllum commune21 December records since 2011
- Peach-Colored Fly Agaric Amanita persicina18 December records since 2011
- Ringless Honey Mushroom Desarmillaria caespitosa18 December records since 2011
- Jack O'Lantern Mushroom Omphalotus subilludens15 December records since 2011
- Cubamyces lactineus13 December records since 2011
Turkeytail Trametes versicolor13 December records since 2011
⚠ Never eat a wild mushroom based on this site. We show where fungi have been recorded, nothing more. We never say any mushroom is edible or safe, and you shouldn't decide that from any website, app or photo. Many deadly mushrooms look like harmless ones. If someone may have eaten a wild mushroom, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 right away.
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Ranked by how often each appears in county top-40 lists. This is a guide to what gets recorded, not to what is common or safe.
Best months to look
Records by month, all years. Busiest: Jun, Oct, Jul.
Counties
Counties with fewer than 100 records (29) are listed here without their own page.
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Alachua County | 15,369 |
| Broward County | 2,944 |
| Miami-Dade County | 2,396 |
| Seminole County | 1,709 |
| Putnam County | 1,124 |
| Glades County | 995 |
| Orange County | 972 |
| Citrus County | 855 |
| Highlands County | 758 |
| Volusia County | 622 |
| Hillsborough County | 583 |
| Marion County | 487 |
| Duval County | 432 |
| Leon County | 398 |
| Levy County | 390 |
| Monroe County | 374 |
| Hernando County | 371 |
| Polk County | 324 |
| Sarasota County | 286 |
| Osceola County | 283 |
| Clay County | 254 |
| Okaloosa County | 233 |
| Lake County | 204 |
| Brevard County | 196 |
| Manatee County | 186 |
| Lee County | 179 |
| Palm Beach County | 172 |
| Walton County | 168 |
| Wakulla County | 167 |
| Pinellas County | 155 |
| Columbia County | 149 |
| Collier County | 134 |
| Martin County | 130 |
| Franklin County | 127 |
| Gadsden County | 112 |
| Escambia County | 111 |
| Gulf County | 103 |
| Calhoun County | 103 |
| St. Johns County | 88 |
| Liberty County | 68 |
| Indian River County | 65 |
| St. Lucie County | 51 |
| Washington County | 51 |
| Gilchrist County | 48 |
| Santa Rosa County | 46 |
| Suwannee County | 41 |
| Union County | 37 |
| Pasco County | 36 |
| Jackson County | 36 |
| Jefferson County | 33 |
| Nassau County | 30 |
| Baker County | 26 |
| Hardee County | 26 |
| Hendry County | 25 |
| Charlotte County | 22 |
| Flagler County | 22 |
| Dixie County | 20 |
| Hamilton County | 18 |
| Taylor County | 13 |
| Bradford County | 13 |
| Sumter County | 12 |
| Lafayette County | 12 |
| Bay County | 11 |
| Madison County | 9 |
| Okeechobee County | 8 |
| DeSoto County | 7 |
| Holmes County | 1 |
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