This mushroom name generator makes up a species for a story or a game, such as Lantern Bolete, found on mossy stumps in pine plantations. The first word is our own choice; the ending is a real group of fungi.
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A fungus name generator on real endings
Press New mushroom name. Tap a part, press its padlock, then press again. Lock the ending on Waxcap and every press names another one, or lock the first word and press through the groups, from Lantern Puffball to Lantern Earthstar.
What the endings mean
Each ending is a real group. A bolete has a spongy surface of pores under the cap, instead of gills. A puffball is ball-shaped and bursts when mature, releasing a cloud of dust-like spores. Milk-caps are named for the milk they exude when cut or bruised. The list under the tool explains them all.
Questions and answers
Are these real mushrooms?
Not that we found. Only the endings are real groups of fungi. Pairs that matched a Wikipedia page title, or a fungus named in its text, were taken out, but a pair can still be a real name.
Can I eat a mushroom named here?
The names are made up, and nothing on this page says whether any real fungus can be eaten. The lines describe what a group looks like and are not a guide for picking mushrooms.
What is a waxcap?
Waxcaps are the fungi of the genus Hygrocybe. They are often brightly colored, with dry to waxy caps and smooth, ringless stems.
Where can I see real mushroom species?
This site's random mushroom generator deals real species with facts about each. This page only makes names up, on the endings that real English names of fungi carry.
How this list was compiled: Our own choice of 106 first words, made on 2026-10-03: household things, trades, small animals and weather. Colors and textures, which real mushroom names use most, were left out on purpose. Every pair of a first word and an ending was looked for that day among the page titles and redirects of English Wikipedia, which hold many English names of fungi (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), in a full-text search of it, and against the real species on this site's mushroom page; the first word of each pair that matched a title, or that the search found as the name of a fungus or a lichen, was taken out. 20 candidates were cut (10 a Wikipedia page title; 6 the name of a real fungus or lichen in the text of English Wikipedia; 3 that repeated an ending, as Teacup Cup did; 1 that made the title of a novel), among them Weeping, Button, Needle, Lace, Dragon's, Velvet. The list of English names kept by the British Mycological Society could not be read that day, so a pair may still be a real name: no pair was checked against it. Licence: own work
Ending: all 23 endings
A 1
AgaricAn agaric has a cap clearly set off from the stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.
BlewitBlewit is the name of two closely related species, the wood blewit and the field blewit or blue-leg.
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B, continued
BoleteA mushroom with a spongy surface of pores under the cap, instead of gills.
BonnetThe English name for the Mycena mushrooms: a small conical or bell-shaped cap on a thin, fragile stem.
BracketBracket or shelf fungi form woody, shelf-shaped fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside.
C 3
ChanterelleChanterelles are orange, yellow or white, meaty and funnel-shaped.
CoralCoral fungi have upright, simple or branched fruit bodies that grow on the ground or on dead wood.
CupCup fungi tend to grow in the shape of a cup, with the spores formed on the inner surface.
E 2
EarthstarAt maturity the outer layer of an earthstar splits into segments that turn outward. The name means earth star.
EarthtongueEarth tongues are generally small, dark in color and club-shaped.
I 1
InkcapThe gills of an ink cap digest themselves into a black, ink-like liquid to release the spores.
J 1
Jelly FungusJelly fungi are named for a fruiting body that is, or appears to be, the consistency of jelly.
M 2
MilkcapMilk-caps are named for the latex, or milk, that they exude when cut or bruised.
MorelMorels have a honeycomb appearance, from the network of ridges with pits that makes up the cap.
P 3
ParasolThe parasol mushroom has a large, prominent fruiting body that resembles a parasol.
PinkgillPinkgills have salmon-pink spores, which color the gills at maturity.
PuffballA ball-shaped fungus that bursts when mature and releases a cloud of dust-like spores.
S 1
SaddleElfin saddles have irregularly shaped caps, fluted stems and fuzzy undersurfaces.
T 2
ToothTooth fungi produce their spores on hanging, tooth-like or spine-like projections.
TruffleA truffle is the fruiting body of a fungus that grows underground.
W 2
WaxcapWaxcaps are often brightly colored, with dry to waxy caps and smooth, ringless stems.
WebcapYoung webcaps have a veil, the cortina, between the cap and the stem.
How this list was compiled: 23 real group names that end the English names of fungi. Each line follows the opening of the group's English Wikipedia article, read on 2026-10-03 (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0); for bonnet the name was found further down the article. Own selection. Nothing here says whether any fungus can be eaten. Licence: own selection and wording; facts from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Found: all 52 places
A 6
along deer trails in wet autumns
along old railroad cuts
along the drip line of ancient oaks
among willows where a creek runs slow
at the foot of garden walls that face east
at the high-water line of forest streams
B 1
between the roots of the oldest yew in the village
H 1
high in the forks of old sycamores
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I 18
in bogs, half sunk in moss
in cellars where apples are stored
in chalk grassland grazed by sheep
in greenhouses nobody has opened since spring
in old horse pastures
in old quarries among birch scrub
in orchards under the oldest quince tree
in rabbit-cropped turf on clifftops
in rings around standing stones
in rings on unmown lawns
in sand dunes among the marram grass
in the cracks of old field walls
in the gutters of barns
in the hollow of a lightning-struck elm
in the leaf litter of hazel thickets
in the thatch of very old roofs
in troops along woodland paths
inside hollow ash trunks
N 1
near the mouths of caves, where a little light reaches
O 18
on buried wood in flower beds
on burned heath the spring after a fire
on compost heaps in late summer
on driftwood above the tide line
on fallen pine cones
on last year's beechnut husks
on molehills in water meadows
on mossy stumps in pine plantations
on rotting fence posts
on sawdust heaps behind sawmills
on the bark of living birches
on the dirt piles outside badger dens
on the lawns of ruined castles
on the north side of fallen oaks
on the old hearths of charcoal burners
on the shingles of abandoned sheds
on the ties of an abandoned railroad
on wood-chip paths in city parks
U 6
under alders at the edge of a pond
under bracken on north-facing slopes
under hedgerows after thunderstorms
under holly in midwinter
under old beech trees after the first frost
under spruce at the tree line
W 1
where bonfires burned the year before
How this list was compiled: Our own list of 52 places for a made-up mushroom to grow, written on 2026-10-03 to read after the word "found". They are story settings, not a guide to where any real fungus grows. Nothing was cut. Licence: own work