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A field mushroom that smells of aniseed and yellows where you bruise it like a guilty conscience.
means A large, edible wild mushroom (Agaricus arvensis) of grassy fields and pastures, with a creamy cap, an aniseed scent, and flesh that yellows slightly when bruised.
from The "mushroom" is the old word for fungus, from Old French mousseron, possibly tied to mousse, "moss," the damp stuff such things spring from. The "horse" is the farmer's blunt habit of slapping that word onto anything large, coarse, or common — as in horseradish or horse chestnut — and these mushrooms grow fat in the very pastures where horses graze, often thriving in the well-manured ground horses leave behind.
- latin name
- Agaricus arvensis, cousin to the supermarket button
- smell test
- crush it and it whispers aniseed or almond
- bruise tell
- flesh stains yellow when handled
- fairy rings
- grows in arcs across old pastures
- dangerous twin
- resembles the toxic yellow stainer mushroom
agaricus arvensis — the scientific name for horse mushroom, a edible fungus found in meadows across europe and north america
fairy ring mushroom — common name in uk/ireland for horse mushroom, grows in circular patterns in grasslands