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Mushrooms

Posted by Sam byrne,
North Country explorer from Sam Byrne
August 4, 2017 —

The north country has different mushrooms than I am used to seeing. I am just starting learn how to ID agarics. Anyone think they have an ID for these? Growing in mulch under a stand of trees. They didn't stain yellow.

Comments

Emlyn Crocker

Thanks for sharing these Sam! Sorry we didn't get to your question sooner. I'm not an expert, but the scaly cap and ring around the stem lend me to think these are in the Lepiota genus. Maybe reddening lepiota (Lepiota americana)? Here's some info from the Missouri DEC - https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/reddening-lepiota Anyone have another idea?

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Claire Burkum

I think that these are likely Agaricus silvaticus (or something similar... A. silvaticus grows under pine... not sure if that was what the mulch was around or not). If you made a spore print, and they were Agaricus, you would get a chocolate brown color. The stature isn't quite right for Lepiota, although those could be easily confused, as Lepiota also has scales on the cap and a membranous annulus. Lepiota, however, has white spore print.

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Emlyn Crocker

Nice! Thanks so much for the insight Claire!

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