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!Species and family
!Distribution
!Dimensions
!Height
!Weight
!Comments |
| Phellinus ellipsoideus (formerly Fomitiporia ellipsoidea), Polyporaceae
|Southern China
|{{convert|10.85|m|abbr=on}} long by {{convert|84|cm|abbr=on}} broad by {{convert|5|cm|abbr=on}} thick.[{{cite journal|title=Fomitiporia ellipsoidea has the largest fruiting body among the fungi| doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.008|volume=115|issue=9|journal=Fungal Biology|pages=813–814|pmid=21872178|date=September 2011 | last1 = Dai | first1 = YC | last2 = Cui | first2 = BK| bibcode=2011FunB..115..813D}}][{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14294283|title=BBC Nature - Giant fungus discovered in China|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=2016-03-06}}]
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|Between {{convert|401.9|and|515.7|kg|abbr=on}}.
|This species was discovered by science in 2008. |
Rigidoporus ulmarius (formerly Polyporus actinobolus), Polyporaceae[{{cite web|url=http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/kew-magazine/come-on-a-fungal-foray.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002085045/http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/kew-magazine/come-on-a-fungal-foray.htm |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead |title=Kew Magazine Blog - Come On A Fungal Foray |access-date=2016-03-06 }}]
|Western and Southern Europe.
|At the Int'l. Mycological Inst. at Kew Gardens, London in 1996. {{convert|1.7|m|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|1.47|m|abbr=on}} broad by {{convert|21|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.[Guinness Book of World Records (1998 Am. edition)p. 143.][Colin Tudge, The Variety of Life (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) p. 159.]
|{{convert|21|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
|{{convert|284.5|kg|abbr=on}} in 1998.
|It perished after a family of foxes took residence beneath it.[{{cite web |url=http://www.fungi.com/info/articles/nobilissimus.html |title=Fungi Perfecti: The largest mushroom in America(?) |access-date=2016-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227070725/http://www.fungi.com/info/articles/nobilissimus.html |archive-date=2011-12-27 }}] |
| Phellinus pachyphloeus (or Inonotus pachyphloeus), Polyporaceae
| The Indian subcontinent.
| A team headed by Manoj Kumar found a massive specimen of this species growing out of a Mango tree near Barotiwala, Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India which measured {{convert|4|ft|11.5|in|cm|abbr=on}} in width, {{convert|4|ft|8|in|cm|abbr=on}} in breadth and {{convert|22.5|in|cm}} top to bottom.[{{ cite web | url= http://threatenedtaxa.org/index'php/JoTT/article/view/3591/4283 | title= Largest fungal fruit body from India | last= Kumar | first= Manoj | display-authors= etal | date= 26 December 2017 | access-date= 26 December 2017 }} {{Dead link|date=March 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}][{{cite journal |last=Kumar |first=Manoj |title=Largest fungal fruit body from India |display-authors=etal |date=26 December 2017 |journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa |volume=9 |issue=12 |pages=11085–11086|doi=10.11609/jott.3591.9.12.11085-11086 |doi-access=free }}]
|{{convert|57|cm|in|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
| Weight not stated, but certainly less than the Rigidoporus above.
| The owner of the land said that it was about 22 years old. |
| Bridgeoporus nobilissimus, Polyporaceae
|western Washington state, western Oregon and northwestern California.
|{{convert|1.42|m|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|94|cm|abbr=on}} broad {{convert|91.5|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
|{{convert|91.5|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
|{{convert|300|lbs|abbr=on|order=flip}}.
|Species discovered in 1949 by Sandoz brothers. Displayed in offices of Weyerhauser Lumber Co. for many years.[William B. Cooke, "Oxyporus nobilissimus...etc", Mycologia Vol. 41 # 4 (July–Aug. 1949) pp. 442-446][http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/june97.html Or go to his archives and click "June 97".] |
| Serpula lacrymans, Polyporaceae
|Originally native to Himalayan foothills, but now of pan-temperate distribution.
|{{convert|3.66|m|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|4.57|m|abbr=on}} top to bottom. Thickness not stated.
|{{convert|4.57|m|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
|Weight not stated.
|Found growing from an Oak beam in a tunnel in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England in 1858.[Gardener's Chronicle Vol. 18 (first series)(May 15, 1858) p. 400.][Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine (1878) p. 604][Frank Vincent, The Plant World (D. Appleton & co., 1897) p. 227.][{{cite book | last= Hartwig | first= Dr. George | date= 1885 | title= The Subterranean World | location= London | publisher= Longmans, Green and Co. | page= 158 }}] It is commonly called the "House Fungus". |
| Calvatia gigantea, Lycoperdaceae
|Of cosmopolitan distribution.
|One found in Herkimer County, New York in 1877 by Prof. R. Ellsworth Call was {{convert|1.63|m|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|1.37|m|abbr=on}} broad by {{convert|24|cm|abbr=on}} high.[American Naturalist Vol. 18 # 5 (May 1884) p. 530.][Ernst A. Bessey Ph.D., Morphology and Taxonomy of the Fungi (Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., 1950) pp. 551-552.] The most voluminous found in recent times was one at Thunder Bay, Ontario along the banks of the Kaministiquia River found by Adrian Karasiewicz in the summer of 2016. It was {{convert|81|in|cm}} in girth.[{{cite web|url=https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/puffball-mushroom-could-be-world-record-largest-438718|title=Puffball mushroom could be world record largest|website=tbnewswatch.com|date=14 October 2016 |access-date=23 September 2018}}]
|{{convert|24|cm|abbr=on}} high.
|Another, in Montreal, Quebec, found by Jean-Guy Richard in 1987, weighed {{convert|22|kg|abbr=on}},[Guinness Book of Records (1994 American Edition) p. 55.] and was {{convert|2.64|m|ftin|abbr=on}} in circumference [{{ cite web | url= https://www.sudbury.com/around-the-north/the-world-record-mushroom-that-wasnt-449950 |title= The World Record Mushroom that Wasn't | last= Thompson | first=Jon | date= October 28, 2016 | access-date= December 11, 2021}}] while another found in July 2012 by Christian Therrien of Sparwood, Canada claimed a weight of {{convert|25.9|kg|abbr=on}} which the accompanying photo seems to confirm.[{{cite web| url = http://www.cbc.ca/radiowest/2012/07/11/man-discovers-giant-mushroom/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120718215137/http://www.cbc.ca/radiowest/2012/07/11/man-discovers-giant-mushroom| archive-date = 2012-07-18| title = CBC.ca {{!}} Radio West {{!}} Man discovers giant mushroom}}]
|A large Puffball can produce up to seven quintillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000) spores;[Colin Tudge,"Variety of Life" op. cit. p. 160.] enough to dust all the world's dry land with 43,750 spores per square foot (per 30 cm X 30 cm). Still another puffball, found in 1857 by J. Dilwyn Llewelin near the coast of Glamorganshire, Wales measured {{convert|43|in|cm}} long by {{convert|38|in|cm}} wide and weighed {{convert|7.5|lb|kg}}.[Gardener's Chronicle Volume 17 (2nd series) Issue 48 (November 28, 1857 ) p. 806] |
| Fomitiporea expansa, Hymenochaetaceae
| Probably endemic to French Guiana and neighboring Suriname.
| The type specimen measured over forty inches (over one meter) in width.[{{ cite journal| journal= Cryptogamie, Mycologie |volume=35 |issue=1 | date= September 2014 |pages=73–85 | doi= 10.7872/crym.v35.iss1.2014.73|title=Fomitiporia expansa, an Undescribed Species from French Guiana |last1=Amalfi |first1=Mario |last2=Decock |first2=Cony |s2cid=86475895 }}]
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| Weight not stated.
| This is a very recent discovered species; 2014. It was found near the Suriname border. |
| Chaga mushroom Inonotus obliquus Polyporaceae
| Much of the Northern Hemisphere. This one in Quebec.
| Circumference of {{convert|42|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}}.
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| {{convert|78.2|lb|kg|abbr=off}}.[{{cite web | url= https://chichaga.com/worlds-largest-chaga-mushroom/|last= anonymous | title= Chichaga - World's Largest Chaga Mushroom | date= 2021 | access-date= October 22, 2022}}]
| Approximately 15 additional pounds (6.8 kilograms) was left on the host tree for regrowth, bringing the total weight to around {{convert|93|lb|kg}}. |
| Phlebopus marginatus, Boletaceae
|Native to humid regions of Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java.
|One found in South Australia prior to 1934 had a cap (pilea) {{convert|61|cm|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|46|cm|abbr=on}} broad.
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|Same one (?) weighed {{convert|32.34|kg|abbr=on}}[John Burton Cleland M.D., "Toadstools and Mushrooms and Other Large Fungi of South Australia" (Adelaide: Gov't Printer, 1934) pp. 190-191.]
|Another, at Hall's Gap, Victoria in 1939 weighed {{convert|28.6|kg|abbr=on}} but was {{convert|77.5|cm|abbr=on}} across the cap.[Correspondence from Dr. H. J. Swart of Melbourne University.] The broadest specimen in recent years was one found on the farm of Mary Phillips at an unspecified location in Australia. Assuming her hand to measure {{convert|3|in|abbr=on}} across the knuckles, the cap is {{convert|25|in|abbr=on}} wide across its longest axis.[{{ cite web | url= https://www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/what-the-fungus | last= May | first= Tom | title= What the Fungus | access-date= March 13, 2018 }}] The most massive (heaviest) in recent years may be one discovered by Pamela McIntyre of Digby, Victoria in July 2012, which was found to weigh forty-four pounds (twenty kilograms).[{{cite web | url= http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2012/07/06/504671_country-living.country-living.html | title= Mushroom weighs in at 20 kg | last= Sampson | first= Alex | date= July 6, 2012 | access-date= July 2, 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}] Called the "Giant Toadstool" in eastern Australia, and "Salmon Gum Mushroom" in Western Australia. Much of the literature is under the older name Boletus portentosus. |
| Ganoderma lucidum, Ganodermataceae
|China. This one Guangxi Province.
| Cap {{convert|107|cm|abbr=on}} wide. Stem short; only ±7 cm (±3 in ) thick.[{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1675693/around-nation-massive-lingzhi-mushroom-found-guangxi|title=Around the nation: massive lingzhi mushroom found in Guangxi|date=2015-01-06|website=scmp.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/pictures/giant-mushroom-over-100cm-wide-found-in-china-reactions.html|title=Giant Mushroom Over 100cm Wide Found in China, Reactions - chinaSMACK|date=11 January 2015|website=chinasmack.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}]
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| By one report {{convert|14.9|kg|abbr=on}} but by another {{convert|7.45|kg|abbr=on}}.
| Fruiting body of G. lucidum can be a conk or a mushroom, depending on the orientation of the substrate. |
| Sparassis crispa, Sparassidaceae
| The mountains of Europe, always in pine forest.
| One found in Mayres, France in October 2000. Dimensions not stated.["Earthweek - Diary of a Planet" for week of October 16, 2000, in ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER of that date.][{{cite web|url=http://www.psms.org/sporeprints/sp368.html|title=Spore Prints Number 368, January 2001|website=www.psms.org|access-date=23 September 2018}}]
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| {{convert|28.8|kg|abbr=on}}.
| The Clavariaceae do not form caps. The spores are produced on stalagmite-like growths. |
| Grifola frondosa Polyporaceae
|North Temperate Zone.
|One found by Hank and John Biscan of Mount Olive, Illinois weighed {{convert|63|lb|kg|abbr=off}}.[{{cite web | url= http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/t4_oddities0528.jpg | title= Saint Louis Post Dispatch - Our Own Oddities | last= Graszak | first= Ralph | date= n.d. | access-date= November 12, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}]
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| Called sheepshead mushroom. |
| Meripilus giganteus, Polyporaceae
| Europe
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Up to {{convert|3|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide, usually accompanied by smaller ones.[{{ cite web | url= https://www.mushroomdiary.co.uk/2011/10/giant-polypore/ | last=Harris | first= J.C. | title= Mushroom Diary - The Slippers - The Giant Polypore | date= October 2011 | access-date= February 16, 2023 }}]
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| Macrocybe titans, Tricholomataceae
| Found from northern Florida to southern Brazil. An outlier was recently found in Athens, Georgia, USA.
| One found in Chiapas State, Mexico in July 2007 measured {{convert|68.8|cm|abbr=on}} across the cap and also {{convert|68.8|cm|abbr=on}} in height. Another in Costa Rica measured {{convert|1|m|abbr=on}} in width.[{{ cite web | url= http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2006/02/08/macrocybe-titans/ | title= Eric Rasmusen's Weblog | last= Rasmusen | first= Eric | date= February 8, 2006 | access-date= January 18, 2012 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120708233937/http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2006/02/08/macrocybe-titans/ | archive-date= July 8, 2012 | url-status= dead | df= mdy-all }}][http://www.fieldmuseum.org/expeditions/area_expedition/gallery_thumb13.html {{Dead link|date=March 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}][http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200707/r159235_580495'jpg {{Dead link|date=March 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}]
|{{convert|68.8|cm|abbr=on}} in height.
|The Chiapas specimen weighed {{convert|20|kg|abbr=on}}.
| This species was only discovered in 1980 (originally named Tricholoma titans). It was apparently not known to native peoples. That such a conspicuous and widespread species escaped notice for centuries constitutes a major anomaly. |
| Macrocybe gigantea (formerly Tricholoma giganteum), Tricholomataceae
| Native to China, India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
| A cluster of 5 or 6 joined at the base was found in Tengchong County, Yünnan Province, China in 2017. The largest was apparently {{convert|83.5|cm|abbr=on}} in height while being {{convert|40|cm|abbr=on}} in width.[{{cite web|url=https://au.be.yahoo.com/lifestyle/video/watch/37582364/giant-wild-mushroom-spotted-in-southwestern-china/|title=Giant wild mushroom spotted in southwestern China|website=yahoo.com|date=22 October 2017 |access-date=23 September 2018}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.sohu.com/a/199870840_135797|title=云南发现XXXXXXXL号的口蘑！替吃货们问了，能吃！|date=24 October 2017|website=www.sohu.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}]
|{{convert|83.5|cm|abbr=on}} in height
| Weight not stated.
| It was discovered by 81 year old Liu Dingsheng who states that it grew in only three days. An attempt was made to transplant the cluster to a safer location. Commonly called the Giant Mushroom. |
Bondarzewia berkeleyi, Bondarzewiaceae[{{Cite web |url=http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.folder/Berkeley's.html |title=Home | Wildman Steve Brill |access-date=2016-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071130/http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Berkeley%27s.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}]
| Eastern North America, Europe, China, New Zealand and New Guinea among other places. Nowhere is it common.
| Subterranean tuber (sclerotium) produces from one to five funnel-shaped concentric caps sharing a common stalk. Total width up to {{convert|1|m|abbr=on}}.[http://www.mesiah.edu/Oaks/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20Bondarzewia_berkeleyi.html {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}][http://www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/FUNGI%20IMAGES/MINIMAX/BondarzewiaberkeleyiFischer34.jpg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510091801/http://www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/FUNGI%20IMAGES/MINIMAX/BondarzewiaberkeleyiFischer34.jpg |date=2017-05-10 }} {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}]
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| Tuber and funnels can total up to {{convert|22.7|kg|abbr=on}}.
| One found in Lawrence, Kansas in 2008 was {{convert|90|cm|ft|abbr=on}} wide and weighed {{convert|6.8|kg|abbr=on}}, but it is not clear whether the sclerotium was included.[{{cite web|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jul/31/giant_mushroom_amazes_lawrence_residents/|title=Giant mushroom amazes Lawrence residents|website=ljworld.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}] B. berkeleyi is called "Stump Blossom" |
| Cerioporus squamosus, Polyporaceae
| Cosmopolitan distribution.
| One found by a Mr. Hopkirk at Dalbeth, Scotland in 1810 was {{convert|226|cm|abbr=on}} in circumference.[Sir William J. Hooker, "Flora Scotica" (London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821) Vol. 2 p. 27.]
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|It weighed {{convert|15.46|kg|abbr=on}}.
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| Fomes fomentarius, Polyporaceae
| Widespread in north temperate zone.
| A specimen growing in France in 2008 measured {{convert|88|cm|abbr=on}} in width by {{convert|62|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.[{{cite web|url=http://mycologia34.canalblog.com/archives/2009/06/29/14238572.html|title=Les Plus Grands Champions - Champignons Passion|date=29 June 2009|website=canalblog.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}]
|{{convert|62|cm|abbr=on}} top to bottom.
| Weight not stated.
| Formerly used as tender for flintlock rifles, and in medicine to control bleeding. Said to be "hard as wood". |
| Laccocephalum mylittae, Polyporaceae
| Australia.
| .
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| Sclerotium weighs up to {{convert|18.18|kg|abbr=on}}.[{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfnc/articles/fungus.htm |title=Fungus - Blackfellow's Bread |access-date=2016-03-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009095250/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfnc/articles/fungus.htm |archive-date=2012-10-09 }}]
|Each subterranean sclerotium produces several mushrooms above ground. |
| Laetiporus sulphureus, Polyporaceae
| Widespread in Northern Hemisphere.
| Approximately half of a specimen found by Ty Whitmore near Maysville, Missouri in October 2005 was {{convert|30|in|cm|abbr=on|order=flip}} wide by {{convert|16|in|cm|abbr=on|order=flip}} top to bottom.[{{cite web|url=http://missourimorels.blogspot.com/2008/02/winter-reading.html|title=Mid Missouri Morels and Mushrooms|last=ahistory|website=missourimorels.blogspot.com|access-date=23 September 2018}}][{{Cite web|url=https://curativemushrooms.com/chicken-of-the-woods-mushroom|title=Chicken of the Woods Mushroom - Nutrition & Health Benefits|date=January 22, 2020}}][{{cite web|url=https://mycotopia.net/topic/28123-45-lb-edibles/|title=45 lb edibles?! - Wild Mushrooming: Field and Forest|website=mycotopia.net|access-date=23 September 2018}}]
|{{convert|16|in|cm|abbr=on|order=flip}} top to bottom.
| This portion weighed {{convert|25.46|kg|abbr=on}}
| The other half fell into a creek and could not be recovered. |
| Termitomyces titanicus, Lyophyllaceae
|Zambia, and the Katanga (Shaba) region of Congo (Zaire), in Central Africa.
| The type specimen measured {{convert|63|cm|abbr=on}} across the cap, and stood {{convert|56|cm|abbr=on}} in height.[Kew Bulletin Vol. 35 # 3 (1980) pp. 479-482.][http://www.spirit-of-the-land.photographer.htm {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}]
|{{convert|56|cm|abbr=on}} in height.
| Weight not stated.
| Others are stated to be up to {{convert|1|m|abbr=on}} in diameter.[Economic Botany Vol. 31 # 4 (Oct-Dec 1977) p. 436.] A photograph was posted on April 19, 2016, on the respected "Words from the Wild" blogsite of a T. titanicus not less than {{convert|35|in|cm}} width across its greater axis.[{{cite web |url= https://www.jessicagroenendijk.com/single-post/2016/04/19/Titans-of-the-Forest-1 | title= Words from the wild | last= Groenendijk | first= Jessica | date= 19 April 2016 | access-date= 8 August 2017 }}] |
| Buglossoporus magnus, Fomitopsidaceae
| Apparently endemic to the Malay Peninsula.
| In 1940 Prof. E.J.H. Corner found the first on a fallen log in the Bukit Timah Forest Reserve, Singapore, which was {{convert|23.5|in|cm}} in width.[{{ cite web | url= http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/75608683/0 | title= Buglossoporus magnus | last= anonymous | date= March 23, 2017 | access-date= June 12, 2018 }}]
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| Weight not stated.
| Extremely rare. Only collected three times, all on the Malay Peninsula. |
| Phlebopus colossus, Boletaceae
| Eastern Madagascar.
| {{convert|60|cm|in|abbr=off}} across the cap (pilea) and {{convert|10|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in height.[{{cite journal | last= Heim | first= Roger | date= February 1, 1936 | title= Trois Bolets Gigantesque d'Afrique et de Madagascar |journal= Revue de Mycologie | volume= 1(new series) | issue= 1 | pages= 6 & 8 (plus Plate 2)}}]
|{{convert|25|cm|in|abbr=on}} in height.
| 13 lbs (six kg).
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| Leucocoprinus gongylophorus, Agaricaceae
|Panama
| {{convert|20|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} across cap by {{convert|12|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in height.[{{cite book | last= Wilson | first=Edward O. | date=1992 | title=The Diversity of Life | location= New York |publisher= W. W. Norton & Co | page= On the tenth photo plate following p. 280}}]
|30 cm in height.
| Weight not stated.
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| Cantharellus californicus
| Endemic to Oak forests in California.
| Pilea up to twenty inches (fifty cm) in width.[{{cite journal | last1= Arora | first1= D. | last2= Dunham | first2= S.M. | date= 2008 | title= A New Commercially Valuable Chanterelle Species (Cantharellus californica)....etc. | journal= Journal of Economic Botany | volume= 62 | issue= 3 | pages= 376-391}}]
| Approx. same height.
| 4.4 pounds (two kilograms).
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| Aspropaxillus giganteus
| North Temperate Zone.
| Pilea (cap) up to {{convert|18|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in width,[{{ cite web | url=https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/giant-funnel/ | last= anonymous | title= Giant Funnel | date= |access-date= February 5, 2022}}] and about {{convert|12|in|cm|spell=in}} in height.
|{{convert|30|cm|in|abbr=on}} in height.
| Weight not stated.
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| Boletus edulis, Boletaceae
| Widespread in the northern temperate zone.
| A specimen found in 1995 on the Isle of Skye, Scotland measured {{convert|42|cm|abbr=on}} across the cap atop a stem {{convert|14|cm|abbr=on}} thick.[G. R. Kozikowski, "Foray Report from Skye", MYCOLOGIST Vol. 10 #4 (1996) pp. 183-184.]
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| It weighed {{convert|3.2|kg|abbr=on}}
| Common names include "penny bun" (Britain), "Cep" (France) and "Porcino" (Italy). |
| Agaricus campestris, Agaricaceae
| Throughout the Northern Temperate Zone.
| In 1907 One was found in England which measured {{convert|4|ft|5|in|cm|abbr=off}} in circumference equivalent to a width of {{convert|17|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}}.[{{cite magazine | author=E.K.R. | date= September 14, 1907 | title= Mushrooms | magazine = Countryside | volume= 5 | issue= 122 | page= 10}}]
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| Weight not stated.
| An Agaricus campestris grown in 1846 at Vitry near Paris, France and presented to King Louis Phillippe, was {{convert|14|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} wide, on a stalk {{convert|18.5|in|cm}} high and weighed {{convert|5|lb|8|oz|kg|abbr=on}}.[{{cite book | last= Rolfe | first= R.T. and F. W. | date= 1926 |title= Romance of the Fungus World | location= Philadelphia |publisher= J.C. Lippincott Co| page= 251 }}] |
| Morchella esculenta, Morchellaceae
| Widespread in the North Temperate Zone.
| One found by Kelly Young in Iowa was {{convert|15|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in height and {{convert|14|in|cm}} in cap girth.[{{cite web | url= https://www.themeateater.com/cook/foraging/10-of-the-biggest-morel-mushrooms-ever-found | last= Neuharth | first= Spencer | title= Ten of the Biggest Morel Mushrooms Ever Found | date= May 14, 2020 | access-date= February 5, 2022 }}] The measurements were certified by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
|{{convert|37|cm|in|abbr=on}} in height
| It weighed {{convert|1.5|lb|g|abbr=off}}
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