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Blushing Wood Mushroom
A woodland Agaricus with a light russet-brown cap covered in reddish-brown scales, which are densest at the centre. Its cap and stem flesh turn red quickly and easily when cut or bruised, then brown. It grows in groups in mixed woodland and under trees in parks.
Generally considered a good edible, but it is uncommon and distrusted by many foragers because brown woodland Agaricus are hard to separate. Exclude the poisonous A. xanthodermus and A. placomyces group, whose flesh turns yellow, not red, and smells of phenol. A. langei (larger spores) also reddens.
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