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Shaggy Parasol
Chlorophyllum rhacodes is the shaggy parasol, a large white-spored agaric. Its brown button cap breaks into shaggy, brown-tipped scales over a whitish background, leaving a smooth brown center. The flesh turns pinkish-orange to reddish when cut, especially at the stem apex, then slowly brownish. It has a smooth stem with a basal bulb and a thick, double-edged, movable ring. It lacks the brown-banded stem of the parasol mushroom, Macrolepiota procera.
Edible when cooked, but it causes gastric upset in some people, and some have strong allergic reactions to all Chlorophyllum species. It must be told apart from the poisonous C. molybdites, the leading cause of mushroom poisoning in North America: always take a spore print, which is white here and green in C. molybdites. C. brunneum is considered toxic in some countries.
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