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02-08-2009, 12:40 PM
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| | | Mushroom ID please
 
Found these in a bag of sycamore woodchips that has been sitting in garden for 2 months. About 200mm tall, cup 75-100mm. Beige darkening to centre, taupe/grey gills darkening to chocolate with maturing spores. Stalk long ande thin, white with axial fibres, showing up as spores stain. Delicate ring, no cup slight swelling to base, good smell, no obvious discolouration on bruising, sweating or bleeding. found 1.8.09. Can't ID. suspect Lepiota. Can I eat them? |
02-08-2009, 02:59 PM
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| | | Re: Mushroom ID please
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Originally Posted by zagroth 
Found these in a bag of sycamore woodchips that has been sitting in garden for 2 months. About 200mm tall, cup 75-100mm. Beige darkening to centre, taupe/grey gills darkening to chocolate with maturing spores. Stalk long ande thin, white with axial fibres, showing up as spores stain. Delicate ring, no cup slight swelling to base, good smell, no obvious discolouration on bruising, sweating or bleeding. found 1.8.09. Can't ID. suspect Lepiota. Can I eat them? | hi (and welcome to Wild About Britain)
these look like Agrocybe rivulosa a recently-described but increasingly common wood-mulch species (the grooved/wrinkled 'rivulose' cap is a good character) Lepiota species don't have coloured spores . . .
as to whether you can eat it - you can eat duck poo!  
not to be recommended I'm afraid (and as someone has recently pertinently said on this site, beware being told you can eat something by someone on the web you don't know . . . . )
you should be fairly safe with WABbers though 
cheers
Chris
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