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Agrocybe
Family: Strophariaceae
43.5391, -80.2476
Field Notes
Description:
Agrocybe, including edible fungi such as the Agrocybe cylindracea, is a genus of mushroom with similar characteristics to the Tricholoma matsutake, Agrocybe aegerita and Agrocybe parasitica. Some are poisonous mushrooms. The genus has a widespread distribution, and contains about 100 species. The edible mushrooms species are not easy to identify and it is safer to avoid the entire genus when mushroom hunting for consumption.
Habitat:
Royal Botanical Gardens, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
Mushroom cultivation began with the Romans and Greeks, who grew the small Agrocybe aegerita. The Romans, who wrote that fungi were thought to arise when lightning struck, collected truffles. In Europe, toxic forms are not normally found, but the Agrocybe molesta is easily confused with Agaricus (white mushrooms) or with seriously poisonous forms of Amanita.
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