the.com/field mushroom
A pale meadow ghost that's grocery-store fame's wild, gilled ancestor.
means A wild, edible mushroom (Agaricus campestris) with a white cap and pink-to-brown gills that grows in grassy fields and meadows, closely related to the cultivated button mushroom.
from A plain English compound: "field," from Old English "feld" (open country, cleared land), plus "mushroom," which arrived via Middle English from Old French "mousseron" — itself probably tied to "mousse," moss, the soft stuff such fungi spring from. The name simply says what it is and where you find it: the mushroom of the open field. Its Latin species name "campestris" means exactly the same thing — "of the fields."
- family tree
- Wild cousin of the cultivated button mushroom
- pink to brown
- Gills blush pink, then darken with age
- deadly lookalike
- Resembles the lethal destroying angel
- overnight arrival
- Can erupt in grassy rings after rain
- spore math
- One cap drops billions of microscopic spores
agaricus bisporus — the common cultivated white mushroom, accounts for ~90% of mushrooms eaten in the us
agaricus campestris — the wild meadow mushroom of europe and north america, the original edible species before cultivation