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This site describes the higher fungi (mushrooms) found in the state of California, which is on the Pacific (west) coast of the United States of America.  This site started out as the Common Fungi of the Bay Area, grew with the addition of less-common species to Fungi of the Bay Area, and has now expanded to become The Fungi of California.  If you read through the bibliography of this web site, you'll find several field guides that document California fungi. Our intent is not to duplicate or replace these field guides, but to augment them. Because field guides are published books, they have two main drawbacks not shared by a web site: they have limited color photos due to printing costs, and they can't be updated frequently to reflect changes in mycological taxonomy and nomenclature.

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