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Agaricaceae Mushrooms

Agaricaceae mushrooms on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.

Eastern flat-top Agaricus with a dark scaly disc, pale cap margin, ringed stem, and yellowing bulbous base in leaf litter

Eastern Flat-Top Agaricus

Agaricus placomyces

Eastern flat-top Agaricus is a woodland mushroom with a white cap covered in gray-brown scales…

POISONOUS
White field mushrooms in short grazed pasture grass, one tipped over showing bright pink gills

Field Mushroom

Agaricus campestris

The field mushroom is the wild relative of the mushroom in your shopping, and it is identified by a sequence…

Caution
A large white green-spored parasol with brown cap scales and a ringed stem growing in mown grass

Green-Spored Parasol

Chlorophyllum molybdites

Green-spored parasol is a large poisonous lawn mushroom whose gills change from white to gray-green as spores…

POISONOUS
Young shaggy mane mushroom standing in mown lawn grass with a tall white cylindrical shaggy cap

Shaggy Mane

Coprinus comatus

The shaggy mane is the only common edible mushroom that destroys itself while you are deciding about it. It…

Caution
Shaggy parasol mushroom in leaf mould with a broad pale cap covered in coarse upturned brown scales

Shaggy Parasol

Chlorophyllum rhacodes

The shaggy parasol is a good edible mushroom with one test standing between it and a serious mistake, and the…

Caution
White-capped yellow stainer mushrooms with flattened tops growing in short lawn grass

Yellow Stainer

Agaricus xanthodermus

The yellow stainer is probably the most frequently eaten poisonous mushroom in the world, and the reason is…

POISONOUS
Small deadly dapperling mushrooms with pink-brown scaled caps and pale gills in damp soil

Deadly Dapperling

Lepiota brunneoincarnata

Deadly dapperling is a small pink-brown scaled *Lepiota* with free white gills, a fragile ring zone, and a…

POISONOUS
Tiny mature deadly parasol with a pink-brown scaled cap and slender stem beside grass

Deadly Parasol

Lepiota subincarnata

Deadly parasol is a small scaled *Lepiota* with free white gills, a fragile veil zone, and felty pink-brown…

POISONOUS
Felt-ringed agaricus mushrooms in western conifer woodland

Felt-Ringed Agaricus

Agaricus hondensis

Felt-ringed agaricus is a poisonous western woodland mushroom with free gills that mature from pink toward…

POISONOUS
Inky mushrooms with dark gray cap scales and yellow-stained stem bases

Inky Mushroom

Agaricus moelleri

The inky mushroom, *Agaricus moelleri*, is a poisonous gray-scaled Agaricus that yellows strongly at the stem…

POISONOUS

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