Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest (MMPNW)

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Matchmaker : Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is an aid to identifying mushrooms. Over 2000 gilled mushrooms of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia are presented.

A simple entry form allows you to enter information about a mushroom (its characteristics), and get a list of the mushrooms that fit the information. Written descriptions of the matched mushrooms can be used to narrow the list further. This does not take the effort out of identification, which is always challenging and not always successful, but it does provide another useful tool.

This web version of MMPNW was created by Alan Thomson, Wendy Alexander, Norman Sim and Tony Trofymow of the Canadian Forest Service with suggestions from Ian and Eli Gibson, the authors of the original and revised CD-ROM versions of the MMPNW program. Copyright for the .jpg illustrations in this site belong to photographers noted with each illustration.

The original non-profit program was designed for CD-ROM and is available from Ian Gibson for a nominal fee to cover materials and postage, at ig@islandnet.com. In that program, there are more than 1200 illustrations of 650 of the gilled species, as well as over 750 illustrations of almost 400 nongilled species. A subset of the illustrations of gilled species is presented here.

MMPNW is a non-profit project with the support of the Pacific Northwest Key Council. Over 50 photographers have contributed, including Key Council members and the photographers of MykoWeb.

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