• Babita Kumari
• Dr. Dara Singh Gupta

Mushrooms are the fleshy and spore-bearing fruiting bodies of some members of a lower group of plants known as fungi. Edible mushrooms have been collected and consumed by people from many countries for thousands of years as a source of food and medicine. However, there is a shortage of information in the literature regarding the edible mushrooms of Jharkhand state. In the present study, the collection and identification of 12 edible mushrooms from the different places in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand were studied. The collected edible mushrooms are as follows: Volvariella volvacea, Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Termitomyces heimmi, Termitomyces microcarpus, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Russula violacea, Ganoderma applanatum, Tuber magnetum, Calocybe indica, Geastrum indicum, and Pleurotus florida. The different morphological characteristics of mushrooms, such as cap, stalk, gills, volva, annulus, shape, and color, were recorded. Most of the mushroom species belong to the Basidiomycota division, the Agaricomycetes class, and the Agaricales division. They are in the saprophytic, parasitic, mycorrhizal, and endophytic categories of habitat.

Collection, Habitat, Identification, Morphological, Mushrooms.

"COLLECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EDIBLE MUSHROOMS IN THE WEST SINGHBHUM DISTRICT OF JHARKHAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no.h517-h522, August-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308759.pdf

"COLLECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EDIBLE MUSHROOMS IN THE WEST SINGHBHUM DISTRICT OF JHARKHAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no. pph517-h522, August-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308759.pdf