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Is this the infamous M. rhacodes?


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Not sure if it's Lepiota, Macrolepiota or Chlorophyllum, it's different everywhere I looked.

Never found it before but sure looks like it. Heavy, meaty, very fibrous stalk that is brown below the ring and white above it. Cut flesh discolors orange.

No trees around.  Please confirm for me, and, if so, how do you cook it? Do you eat the stalk too?

Spore printing now.

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Assuming that your specimens have white spores, buttons and slightly opened caps can be cut up and sauteed like most mushrooms, stems and all.  Once the caps have fully opened the stalks become tough and should be discarded.  In that state the caps are best dried and powdered and used as a flavor enhancer in soups, stews, and sauces.

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Thanks vitog, but tasting C. rhacodes will have to wait till I find one. Spores finally showed up, after a day and a half.image.jpeg

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Sure does. Thanks Dave, but no worries, I wouldn't eat the sucker without verifying the spore color, and if it didn't produce a print I'd toss it regardless. I was quite excited to get the green print actually, it was kinda cool to beat the mushroom in it treacherous attempt to fool me.

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