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Parasol Mushroom
Macrolepiota procera, the parasol mushroom, is a large saprotrophic agaric with a scaly cap up to 25 cm across, a tall stem with a snakeskin pattern below a movable ring, and a white spore print. It grows in pastures and occasionally in woodland. Whether North American collections are the same species still needs confirmation.
Edible and well regarded; the stem is too fibrous to eat. Use only mature, positively identified specimens. Dangerous look-alikes: Chlorophyllum molybdites (green-tinged gills, greenish spore print, no snakeskin stem; a leading cause of mushroom poisoning in North America), deadly white Amanita species (avoid button stages) and small deadly Lepiota species.
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