Wood Mushroom

Agaricus silvicola

Family: Agaricaceae

Wood Mushroom (Agaricus silvicola)
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Overview

Tall slender forest Agaricus with white cap turning yellowish, smell of bitter almond / aniseed. Across European, Asian, and North American conifer and mixed forest. Edible — distinguish from yellow-staining toxic A. xanthodermus.

Edibility
Edible
Rarity
common
Trophic mode
saprotrophic

Host trees & substrate

  • Local forest substrate

Key identification features

  • Aniseed / marzipan smell
  • White cap aging cream-yellow
  • NO chrome-yellow stain at base when cut
  • Forest, not pasture

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