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

Blackening waxcaps showing bright conical caps and progressive charcoal-black bruising - Blackening Waxcap | KnowTheSpore

Blackening Waxcap

Hygrocybe conica

Blackening waxcap begins as a bright pointed yellow, orange, or red mushroom and darkens gray-black after…

Inedible
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
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

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