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Agaricus vaporarius.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Agaric de Bernard, Clustered Mushroom, Garten-Egerling, Psalliote de Bernard
Agaricus vaporarius Mushroom
Ref No: 6877
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Agaricus vaporarius2 Mushroom
Ref No: 6878
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Ring on stem
spore colour: Purplish to black
habitat: Grows in woods

Agaricus vaporarius (Vitt.) Mos. syn. Psalliota vaporaria (Vitt.) Mψller & Schaeff. Garten-Egerling Agaric de Bernard, Psalliote de Bernard Clustered Mushroom Cap 10–15cm across, subglobose at first expanding to flattened convex, dirty brown soon breaking up into large scales. Stem 60–120 x 25–50mm, tapering at the base which is deeply buried in the soil, white and smooth although initially with brown fibrous scales; ring thick and white, pendulous. Flesh white, reddening only slightly on cutting. Taste nutty, smell mushroomy. Gills pale pink at first later chocolate brown. Cheilocystidia numerous, thin-walled, clavate, hyaline, 18–28 x 4–10΅. Spore print brown. Spores subglobose, 6–7΄4.5–6m. Habitat gardens and deciduous woods often developing below ground and pushing up through the soil as it expands. Season autumn. Rare. Edibility suspect -avoid. Found In Europe.

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