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Wood Mushroom
A white woodland Agaricus with a slender stem ending in a small bulb and a pleasant aniseed odour. The cap is pure white at first, yellowing with age and bruising slowly ochre. It grows in trooping groups in all kinds of woodland.
Listed as a good edible, but adverse reactions have occasionally been reported in North America, so try a small portion first. A white woodland mushroom: separate it from deadly white Amanitas (white gills, white spore print, volva) and from the poisonous A. xanthodermus (chrome-yellow stem base, ink or iodine odour).
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