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Scientific name Common name Active agent Distribution Similar edible species Picture Agaricus californicus: California Agaricus: phenol and xanthodermin: North America Edible Agaricus species Agaricus hondensis [1] Felt-ringed Agaricus: phenol and xanthodermin: North America Edible Agaricus species Agaricus menieri: phenol and xanthodermin: Europe
A. Agaricus abruptibulbus; Agaricus aestivalis; Agaricus amicosus; Agaricus arvensis; Agaricus augustus; Agaricus bernardii; Agaricus bisporus; Agaricus bitorquis
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Conocybe rugosa is a common species of mushroom that is widely distributed and especially common in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It grows in woodchips, flowerbeds and compost. [2] [3] It has been found in Europe, Asia and North America. [2] [3] It contains the same mycotoxins as the death cap mushroom.
Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, it is commonly known variously as the pinwheel mushroom, the pinwheel marasmius, the little wheel, the collared parachute, or the horse hair fungus. The type species of the genus Marasmius , M. rotula was first described scientifically in 1772 by mycologist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and assigned its current ...
A well-known edible species is the Japanese nameko mushroom (Pholiota nameko). A secotioid form of Pholiota was previously recognized as a distinct genus, Nivatogastrium . The genus Psilocybe is well known for its psychedelic mushrooms and used to be classified in the Strophariaceae, but is now separated from the nonhallucinogenic species that ...
Clitocybe laccata is an old alternative name. Var. pallidifolia, described by Charles Horton Peck, is the most common variety found in North America. It is the type species of the cosmopolitan mushroom genus Laccaria; where their relations lie among the gilled mushrooms is unclear, but they are currently classified in the family Hydnangiaceae.
Tricholoma is a genus of fungus that contains many fairly fleshy white-spored gilled mushrooms which are found worldwide generally growing in woodlands. These are ectomycorrhizal fungi, existing in a symbiotic relationship with various species of coniferous or broad-leaved trees.