3/6/2018 Agaricus silvicola (Vittad.) Peck
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Agaricus silvicola (Vittad.) Peck
silvicola means woodland inhabitant
Description: mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 615 cm; stalk central, 715 cmlong, 12 cm diameter. Spore Print Color: purplishbrown. Spores: basidiospores 56.5 x 34.5 µm,ellipsoid, mooth, dark brown.
Diagnostic macroscopic feature: white mushroomthat stains yellow with KOH, with free gills that aredark brown when mature, with white stalk andannulus growing on ground in woods or woodedyards
not common
3/6/2018 Agaricus silvicola (Vittad.) Peck
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Nutritional Mode: saprobe
Substrate: on ground
Habitat: woodlands
Fruiting Season: summer, fall
Kingdom: Fungi Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales