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Calvatia gigantea, commonly known in English as the giant puffball, is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests in late summer and autumn. It is found in temperate areas throughout the world. [1]
Amanita echinocephala is a large, whitish or ivory-coloured mushroom with a characteristic spiny, or warty-looking cap. A. solitaria is a synonym and opinions are divided as to which name takes precedence. It lives on chalky soils with beech trees, and appears earlier than most mushrooms of similar size in southern England.
The cap of L. giganteus can become rather large, ranging from 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in), rarely even 70 cm (28 in) in diameter with a thickness of 1 to 1.4 cm (0.4 to 0.6 in) at half the radius. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Younger specimens have caps that are convex, with a margin that is rolled downwards, but as the mushrooms matures the cap flattens out ...
Agaricus moelleri, commonly known as the flat-top agaricus, [1] inky mushroom, [2] or dark scaled mushroom, [3] is a large mushroom of the genus Agaricus. [3] It appears occasionally in most kinds of woodland, during late summer, in northern temperate zones .
Slow-roasted your mushrooms and tomatoes with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, then use pesto and fresh mozzarella for the toppings on golden, pan-toasted sourdough slices.
Puffball mushrooms on sale at a market in England. The giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea (earlier classified as Lycoperdon giganteum), reaches 1 foot (0.30 m) or more in diameter, and is difficult to mistake for any other fungus. It has been estimated that, when mature, a large specimen of this fungus will produce around 7 × 10 12 spores.
Craterellus tubaeformis (formerly Cantharellus tubaeformis) is an edible fungus, also known as the winter chanterelle, [2] yellowfoot, winter mushroom, or funnel chanterelle. It was reclassified from Cantharellus , which has been supported by molecular phylogenetics .