Agaricus flocculosipes – an edible species of the arvensis clade – updated!
I would have sworn this mushroom was Agaricus augustus and it seemed to have many of its macroscopic characteristics. So I was very surprised to get a DNA sequence for…
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Agaricus bitorquis – the pavement mushroom
Agaricus bitorquis Often called the pavement mushroom or the conifer agaricus, this mushroom is actually quite closely related to your standard, typical supermarket button mushroom (see also Agaricus bernardii). It…
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Agaricus subrufescens – a common almond-smelling species
While there are a number of almond / marzipan smelling Agaricus such as the Marzipan Agaricus in southern Australia, two separate collections from South Eastern Queensland and Adelaide turned out…
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Agaricus ‘marzipan’ – the almondy agaricus (JF495057) – updated!
A superb mushroom with a strong scent of almonds, this mushroom was initially collected wild in a secluded location in the Dandenong Ranges – resembling a small Agaricus augustus in…
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Agaricus ‘Vic Red Stainer’
One of the most interesting local Agaricus is the Victorian brown-capped red stainer. The most common variant is a dense, thickly scaled Agaricus species with brown to occasionally almost purple…
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Agaricus augustus
For quite a while Ive been puzzled by online and guidebook descriptions and observations of Agaricus augustus in southern Australia and particularly in Victoria. Nearly always these mushrooms described as…
