Chlorophyllum agaric (Chlorophyllum agaricoides)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Chlorophyllum (Chlorophyllum)
- Type: Chlorophyllum agaricoides (Chlorophyllum agaric)
:
- Endoptychum agaricus
- Umbrella agaricoid
- Champignon umbrella
- Endoptychum agaricoides
- Secotium agaricoides
Valid modern name: Chlorophyllum agaricoides (Czern.) Vellinga
head: 1–7 cm wide and 2–10 cm high, spherical to ovoid, often tapering upwards to a blunt end, dry, white, pinkish to dark brown, smooth with slight hairiness, appressed fibrous scales may form, cap margin fuses with the leg.
When the spores mature, the skin of the cap cracks longitudinally and the spore mass spills out.
plates: not expressed, these are gleba of curved plates with transverse bridges and cavities, when ripe, the entire fleshy part becomes a loose powdery mass, with aging, the color changes from white to yellowish to yellow-brown.
spore powder: not available.
Leg: externally 0–3 cm long and 5–20 mm thick, running inside the peridium, white, turning brown with age, often with a cord of mycelium at the base.
Ring: missing.
Smell: does not differ at a young age and cabbage in the old.
Taste: soft.
Microscopy:
Spores 6,5–9,5 x 5–7 µm, round to elliptical, green to yellow-brown, germinal pores indistinct, reddish-brown in Meltzer’s reagent.
It grows singly or in small clusters, in summer and autumn. Habitat: cultivated land, grass, wasteland.
Edible when young and white.
The similar Endoptychum depressum (Singer & AHSmith) prefers woodland habitats and turns black inside in old age, while Chlorophyllum agaric prefers to grow in open spaces and becomes yellow-brown inside in old age.
The article used photos of Oksana.