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Calocybe gambosa.
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| synonyms: Mairitterling, Mousseron vrai, St George’s Mushroom, Tricolome de la Saint-Georges |
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| location: North America | | edibility: Choice | | fungus colour: White to cream | | normal size: 5-15cm | | cap type: Convex to shield shaped | | stem type: Simple stem | | flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) | | spore colour: White, cream or yellowish | | habitat: Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides
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Calocybe gambosa (Fr.) Sing. syn. Tricholoma gambosum (Fr.) Kummer syn. Lyophyllum georgii (L. ex Fr.) Kühn. & Romagn. Mairitterling Tricolome de la Saint-Georges, Mousseron vrai St George’s Mushroom. Cap 5–15cm across, subglobose then expanding, often irregularly wavy and sometimes cracking, margin inrolled, white. Stem 20–40×10–25mm, white. Flesh white, soft. Taste and smell mealy. Gills narrow, very crowded, whitish. Spore print white. Spores elliptical, 5–6 x 3–4µ. Habitat in grass on roadsides and wood edges or in pastureland. Season found traditionally on 23 April, St George’s Day, whence it gets its name although more frequently maturing a week or so later. Occasional. Edible – good. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, America and Europe. |
Mushroom Recipes |
| Soufflé Flan with St George's Mushroom Filling |
| St George's Mushroom |
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Jo Priestnall (United Kingdom) - 27 June 2011
April 2006 - ring of St George's Mushrooms found in park in Welwyn Garden City
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Jo Priestnall (United Kingdom) - 20 June 2011
Found on roadside by a park in Welwyn Garden City Apr 2006
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Marjan Kustera (Yugoslavia) - 08 May 2011
FIND AND PHOTO TAKEN BY,Marjan Kustera,Serbia,Niš.
Saturday, 07.Maj, Southeast Serbia.Small town Babušnica.
Spring is very dry and warm season late in the rain waiting long.
Mushrooms only for a good photograph.
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 26 August 2010
Sopot Park Polnocny.poland
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Jon Bemrose (United Kingdom) - 09 May 2010
8 may 2010, Richmond North Yorkshire UK, still very dry, forcing through, need a prolonged rain for good fruition, but a handy enough collection for lunch
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Jon Bemrose (United Kingdom) - 09 May 2010
Just appeared this week 8/5/2010
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Slobodan Nikolic (Yugoslavia) - 03 May 2010
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Ric Lander (United Kingdom) - 20 April 2009
St. George's Mushrooms picked from a garden lawn, 11th April 2009, Letchworth Garden City, UK.
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nesko simic (United Kingdom) - 07 February 2009
Berks
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