Macro Mushroom
Agaricus urinascens
Cap Diameter (mm): 
80-300
Stem Diameter (mm): 
25-40
Stem Height (mm): 
100-140
 
Description: 

A large, often massive mushroom found in soil among grass from early Summer until early Autumn.

Cap: 

Cream or with a slight ochre tint, that splits to reveal woolly or scaly patches.

Flesh: 

White, firm and thick and no change in colour on cutting or bruising. There is a strong smell of aniseed in young and mature specimens.

Gills: 

Pale, free, crowded, becoming a fawn colour and finally chocolate-brown or blackish at maturity.

Spores: 

Chocolate-brown

Stem: 

White and sometimes pinkish towards the base on cutting, fusiform, with a thick but fragile ring, smooth above the ring, floccular below it.

Distribution: 

Infrequent

Habitat: 

In pastures, meadows.