Growing near the road. Lots of rain and monsoon weather systems lately. About 1.7 inches wide.
Orangish-brown color with white showing through on cap surface. Sharp, pointed, prominent scales on cap. Filmy, white partial veil, and prominent, rough ring dividing the stem. White, free gills.
Time: 2:00pm
Weather: Overcast, on and off rain. Cool (~10 degrees C)
Route: Walked along Plateau trail
Habitat: Found in shade growing in moist soil under conifers, bushes, just off of the trail.
Description: Cap and stipe buff to light brown in color. Cap spherical in immature mushrooms, plane and 12 cm in diameter in mature specimens. Cap dry, scaly. Stipe 20-25cm in height.
Found on the walking trail closest to the entrance sign of Bastyr University on seminary drive. Found a day after heavy rain and all alone with no nearby mushrooms. Also known as a shaggy parasol mushroom.
cap:large convex, umbonate, light brown
gills: present, white, free
stipe: white with ring
spore print: white
Hiked around in the Evergreen woods with the MES students today and came across this. Shaggy cap and it was still closed. Found on the ground near western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllm). Sorry my photos are not great of this.
I've found Lepiota procera twice now along the path up into our woods.
Lepiota species. We found this and Lepiota cristata on Saturday, the other species that I thought was a Lepiota was Agaricus placomyces. The gills turned pink when we got it home.
Lepiota is a genus of gilled mushrooms, in the order Agaricales. Though they have white spores, they are related to the familiar brown spored mushrooms of the genus Agaricus. They typically have rings on the stems, which in larger species are detachable and glide up and down the stem. The cap usually has scales: the colours of the cap, gills and scales are important in determining the exact species, as is sometimes the smell.
