Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms
by Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 60.
Spring is also the time for a wide range of gilled mushrooms, though
their real forte comes in the fall. One ubiquitous spring gilled mushroom
is Agrocybe praecox. It is widely distributed in cultivated
areas, in grass, in logged off lands. Agrocybe praecox can
be staggeringly abundant. I had heard from one fancier that it was good
eating, but the ones I tried had a disgusting flavor and were quite unpalatable.
There is a whole complex of similar Agrocybe species and the mushroom is
often confused with some species of Agaricus, Stropharia,
Pholiota,
and with Rozites caperata.
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