Early fieldweed (Agrocybe praecox)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)
- Genus: Agrocybe
- Type: Agrocybe praecox (Early fieldweed)
- Agrocybe is early
- Scales early
- vole early
- Pholiota precox
The vole is early (lat. Agrocybe pre-cooked) is a mushroom of the Bolbitiaceae family. Not less common synonyms are also known, such as Чешуйчатка ранняя (Pholiota praecox) и Agrocybe is early.
Hat:
Width 3-8 cm, in youth hemispherical with a distinct “cushion”, with age it opens to prostrate. The color is indefinitely yellowish, light clay, sometimes fading in the sun to a dirty whitish. In wet weather, faint signs of “zonation” can be found on the hat. The remains of a private cover often remain on the edges of the cap, which makes this fungus look like representatives of the genus Psathyrella. The flesh of the cap is whitish, thin, with a pleasant mushroom smell.
Records:
Quite frequent, wide, grown with a “tooth”; when young, light, yellowish, with age, as the spores mature, darken to dirty brown.
Spore powder:
Tobacco brown.
Leg:
The same color scheme as the hat, darker at the bottom. The leg is hollow, but at the same time very hard and fibrous. Height 5-8 cm, sometimes higher in the grass; thickness up to 1 cm, although usually thinner. In the upper part – the remains of the ring, as a rule, somewhat darker than the stem itself (become even darker when the mushroom ripens, being decorated with falling spores). The flesh is brownish, especially in the lower part.
Spread:
The early fieldweed is found from early June to mid-July in gardens, parks, along the edges of forest roads, preferring rich soils; can settle on heavily rotted woody remains. In some seasons it can bear fruit very abundantly, although it usually does not come across as often.
Similar species:
Given the timing of growth, it is quite difficult to confuse the early field with any other mushroom. Closely related and outwardly similar species (such as Agrocybe elatella) are much less common. But it is much more difficult to distinguish it from the hard agrocybe (Agrocybe dura), the hard field is usually whiter in appearance, grows more on silage than on woody remains, and its spores are several micrometers larger.
Edibility:
Fieldweed – A normal edible mushroom, although some sources indicate bitterness.