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Agaricus campestris
Thick umbrella shaped cap with brown gills and a plain white thick stem. Aroma of edible mushroom. Spore pattern is dark brown. mostly four to six cm caps in this group. Some of the older caps had upturned edges (image one) Different species?
up to ten sprinkled through a public thoroughfare by a swamp near the coast. Regularly mown. Constant rain and autumn temperatures during the previous week
# brown gill march 14 Thank you Mark Ridgeway for the ID
Spotted on Mar 9, 2014
Submitted on Mar 9, 2014
2 Comments
That weather estimate sounds about right. Thanks, I will go with that. No worries about me eating something I find in a suburban meadow :-)
They sure look like Agaricus campestris (supermarket mushies)... but large white agarics are dangerous to trust for a meal. Rolled edges might be shrinkage as a product of the recent climate. A period of good growth followed by a sudden hot dry would do it.