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PortabellaKindaGuy
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Identify these mushroom (southern California) please!
#28643282 - 02/01/24 06:31 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Found these on a muddy hillside under dead foliage and leaves after a good rain in Southern california, only a mile or so from the coastline. Pinkish brown colored gills. Stems are a creamy white with pink streaks, firm with no slimy residue. Caps are two to four inch caps with a dark brown / black spot in the center. No discernable bruising color. The more mature mushrooms are more pink than their younger counterparts.
    
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: PortabellaKindaGuy]
#28643312 - 02/01/24 07:12 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Agaricus sp
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PortabellaKindaGuy
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: Bardy]
#28643352 - 02/01/24 07:49 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Any way to tell if this is an edible agaricus or a poisonous one? I'd like to cook em up tomorrow for dinner if possible.
When the cap is scratched:

They smell earthy, like fresh store bought mushrooms. No chemically or off-smell to them.
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: PortabellaKindaGuy]
#28643478 - 02/02/24 12:12 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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No yellow staining and no bad smells should mean you can eat it as far as I’m aware, but wait for a TI. I’m not very experienced with picking these
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: Bardy]
#28643523 - 02/02/24 02:20 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Bardy said: No yellow staining and no bad smells should mean you can eat it as far as I’m aware, but wait for a TI.
Yup, that's how I always understood it. There's quite a few similar-looking agaricus sp. that I suspect are treated as equivalent by many mushroom pickers.
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: Bardy] 1
#28643572 - 02/02/24 04:24 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Bardy said: No yellow staining and no bad smells should mean you can eat it as far as I’m aware, but wait for a TI. I’m not very experienced with picking these
Agaricus is a complex genus, proper identification is often difficult. According to Mykoweb there are several toxic species growing in California, and apparently not all of them exhibit these tell-tale features with the same prominence as i.e. A. xanthodermus.
I would have cut through the stem base to check closer for bruising and smell.
But again, there are probably someone with better knowledge of Californian mushrooms who might give better guidance here.
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: Anglerfish]
#28643851 - 02/02/24 11:26 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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In addition to above comments. The phenolic odor that can often be a tell tale of Agaricus you don’t want to eat is often very faint IMO, and they often smell more like classic grocery store mushrooms. I instead make sure I distinctly smell almond notes before collecting for consumption. I find the smell most pronounced near the end of the steam from freshly cut or scratched stipes.
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#28644478 - 02/02/24 07:43 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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I would fry them up. There's a small chance they're slightly poisonous so I wouldn't eat much first time. They do look delicious
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Re: Identify these mushroom (southern California) please! [Re: PortabellaKindaGuy] 1
#28644745 - 02/03/24 02:45 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Agaricus californicus, toxic.
They look similar to A. xanthodermus, but A. californicus stains yellow mostly at the stem base.
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