Introduction to Mushrooms Revised April 2000
by By Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 39.
Lepiota rachodes is a highly prized and widespread choice edible species that can reach the size of a dinner plate. It has a white spore-print and stains a distinctive bright orange-red then slowly brown when bruised. It grows on well-manured ground, compost piles and large anthills. The similar Lepiota americana grows in clusters and when young bruises yellow then slowly reddish. Lepiota rachodes and Lepiota americana are edibles that I cannot eat without stomach ache. Also be certain that you do not have a very similar but poisonous green-spored Chlorophyllum molybdites.
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