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Observation: Agaricus californicus Peck (57988)
About Agaricus californicus Peck
Public Description (default) [Edit]
When: 2010-11-04
Collection location: Skyline Blvd., Oakland, California, USA [Click for map]
Who: BakerSt10
No herbarium specimen
Species Lists:
Albinos, Pigment & Growth Oddities
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Proposed Name User Community Vote
  BakerSt10   -51% (3)  
Recognized by sight: Growing with wood chips, mild pleasant odor
  amanitarita   55% (1)  
Recognized by sight: not arvensis tho: wood chip rather than grass habitat, and I don’t see yellow on fruit bodies anywhere.
Arvensis smells of anise or almonds to the nose…not just not bad, or vaguely “mushroomy”. you may be one who can’t smell the library paste smell of phenol, which complicates Agaricus ID.
  amanitarita   83% (1)   Eyes3
Recognized by sight: see MO observation #58263 http://mushroomobserver.org/58263?q=2ff6

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Comments: Add Comment

Created: 2010-11-08 14:18:16 WET (+0000)
By: BakerSt10
Summary: Thanks Debbie!

I definitely need to look closer at these in the future.

68365

Created: 2010-11-05 14:03:27 WET (+0000)
By: BakerSt10
Summary: Piggyback!

Yep it was, nice to find these. As to smell it had a ever so slight almond or sweet and not a phenolic.If you look at the fourth picture there is a place on the cap where it was scraped, no yellow.

68365

Created: 2010-11-05 02:23:51 WET (+0000)
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
Summary: is that a piggyback mushroom its cap?

if so, nice find!

202406

Created: 2010-11-05 00:32:49 WET (+0000)
By: Christian (Christian Schwarz)
Summary: I have a hard time

imagining that this is actually A. arvensis, given the wood chip habitat, lobed cap, and tortuous/shiny stem. Sure it’s not one of the toxic yellow stainers? Some people interpret the phenol odor as a nice smell.

167312


Created: 2010-11-04 22:51:56 WET (+0000)
Last modified: 2010-11-08 14:16:27 WET (+0000)
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