Shaggy parasol

Do you remember the day we found shaggy parasol mushrooms?"

The shaggy parasol is popularly praised as a choice edible mushroom.

In contrast, the shaggy parasol is found in woodland, especially among conifers.

Smaller but similar in appearance is the common shaggy parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes.)

Mr. Dilworth had positively identified it as Lepiota rachodes, the shaggy parasol.

The shaggy parasol is a large and conspicuous agaric, with thick brown scales and protuberances on its fleshy white cap.

The shaggy parasol is similar in appearance to the similarly edible parasol mushroom, Macrolepiota procera.

The Shaggy parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes)

Two notable species are the shaggy ink cap Coprinus conatus and shaggy parasol Lepiota rhacodes.

There are fairy rings of eight-inch-diameter horse-mushrooms and of shaggy parasols (no good for eating raw, but I pick a bagful for later.)

Furthermore, young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly).

In May, there may be small, fast flushes of boletes, late flushes of black chanterelles, and some agarics, puffballs, fairy-ring mushrooms and shaggy parasols.

Highly poisonous and producing severe gastrointestinal symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, it is commonly confused with the shaggy parasol, and is the most commonly consumed poisonous mushroom in North America.

The best known members are the edible shaggy parasol, a name applied to three very similar species Chlorophyllum rhacodes, C. olivieri and C. brunneum, and the poisonous C. molybdites, which is widespread in subtropical regions around the world.

The Shaggy parasol is the common name for three closely related species of mushroom, Chlorophyllum rhacodes, C. olivieri and C. brunneum, found in North America and Europe (the latter species is also found in Australia).