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3/6/2018 Agaricus silvicola (Vittad.) Peck http://www.herbarium.iastate.edu/fungi/fungispecies.php?sp=Agaricus+silvicola+%28Vittad.%29+Peck 1/2 Agaricus silvicola (Vittad.) Peck silvicola means woodland inhabitant Description: mushroom Fruiting Body: cap 615 cm; stalk central, 715 cm long, 12 cm diameter. Spore Print Color: purplish brown. Spores: basidiospores 56.5 x 34.5 µm, ellipsoid, mooth, dark brown. Diagnostic macroscopic feature: white mushroom that stains yellow with KOH, with free gills that are dark brown when mature, with white stalk and annulus growing on ground in woods or wooded yards not common

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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

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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