12/Sep/23, 3:15 PM
Kloostrimetsa tee, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pines, spruces, mapples, cherry trees, on grassy woodland edge
59°28'09.1"N 24°50'33.5"E
🔆 Sunny weather, occasional clouds, semishade from trees
Original Instagram postAgaricus sylvicola
wood mushroom
- Scientific identification
- Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck
- Family
- Agaricaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Agaricus
Names across languages
- English: wood mushroom
- German: Dünnfleischiger Anis-Egerling
- Finnish: Kuusiherkkusieni
- Estonian: Metsšampinjon
- Russian: Шампиньон перелесковый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-09-12.
Hymenium
Gills crowded, whitish when very young, becoming greyish-pink to pink and finally chocolate-brown as spores mature
Cap
Ovoid to convex when young, later broadly convex to flat; white to cream, smooth to finely silky-fibrillose; slowly bruising yellow to ochre-yellow, particularly near the margin
Hymenium Attachment
Free
Stipe
Slender, white, cylindrical, usually with a distinctly bulbous base; yellowing when handled; large, thin, pendulous white ring, often with yellowish floccose scales or a cogwheel-like pattern beneath
Spore print
Spore print chocolate-brown
Ecology
Saprobic in coniferous, deciduous and mixed woodland; alone, scattered or gregariously, often among leaf or needle litter; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Good edible, with pleasant flavour
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large; stipe ~5–10 cm long and ~1–2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~6–14 cm
Flesh
White, firm, sometimes faintly yellowing when cut; bruised outer surfaces gradually yellow to ochre
Chemical reactions
Schaeffer reaction positive, orange-red on cap surface; KOH yellow
Odour
Distinctive sweet aniseed to almond-like
Taste
Mild, pleasant
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, ~5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; cheilocystidia abundant, subglobose to ellipsoid or clavate
Overview
White woodland Agaricus with aniseed odour, yellow bruising and a bulbous stipe base
1872). Ann. Rep. Reg. N.Y. St. Mus. 23: 97 (’1870′).
Field encounters
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