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can someone help me id this?


Bob E.

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The pictures are done well and have multiple angles, but you missed on very important thing.  What is your regional location?  Also you said your yard which means grass, but were these in an area that's grass all around or were there any scattered trees and if so what kind?

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I think this may be Stropharia rugosoannulata (King Stropharia, Wine Cap). The most common cap color for this species is burgundy, but there's also a yellow-capped type, and the wine-colored ones often fade to a very pallid grayish/tannish. The mushroom cap seen here is quite lacking in color. The patchy pattern is the result of the cap cuticle cracking and the resulting scales shrinking during a dry period of weather. The thick white rhizomorphs (threads) on the base of the stipe are a Stropharia trait. The attached gills (meeting the stipe) rules out genus Agaricus. The large/robust stature supports a proposal of S. rugosoannulata. Spore print for Stropharia is very dark grayish/purplish/brownish. 

When S. rugosoannulata has the burgundy colored cap, it's very distinctive. Could this one be something other than S. rugosoannulata? Nothing comes to my mind. There are a few species of Stropharia that are reportedly poisonous.

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