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Pavement Mushroom

Agaricus bitorquis

Photo by FelixO
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Field Notes

Description:

Mushroom
cap was about 3 inches in diameter
dark brown gills on the bottom

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)

There's not enough information here to fully identify this species. The are hundreds of Agaricus species and correctly identifying them can be hard enough with a microscope. Anything beyond Agaricus is mostly guesswork.
I guessed it's A. Bitorquis because of the way it grows out of the ground, plus, the horse mushroom is a very big mushroom. You can determine if this is the Torque (or Pavement -) mushroom by the two collars it has on the stem. This would be a distinctive sign.
Please have a look at Agaricus bitorqios: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bitorquis

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