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Help to ID Mushrooms please


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Other than species of Scleroderma --which are poisonous-- soft-fleshed true puffballs are edible if the inside is completely white. These include species of Lycoperdon, Calvatia, Bovista, and Handkea. The texture should be like cream cheese. Once the internal flesh begins to turn yellow/green/purple a puffball should not be consumed. Scleroderma species have flesh that is denser than other puffballs. Usually even an immature Scleroderma ball has flesh that is at least tinged grayish. But occasionally a young Scleroderma specimen may be completely white inside. So, if one wishes to collect puffballs to eat, they should learn to recognize genus Scleroderma. Also, anything suspected to be a puffball should be sectioned vertically in order to eliminate the possibility that the "puffball" is actually a button of a young gilled mushroom. Species of Amanita in the button stage often look like puffballs. Once vertically sectioned, the interior of an Amanita button will show the outline of the stalk/cap of a mushroom. 

Genus Agaricus includes both edible and toxic species. Species from one region to another can vary. I am not familiar with the particular types of Agaricus that are found in Portugal. 

Mushrooms referred to as "parasols" encompass genera Macrolepiota, Chlorophyllum, and Leucoagaricus. The caps of Macrolepiota mushrooms are edible (stalks are tough/fibrous). Genus Chlorophyllum includes the toxic species C. molybdites, which has a green spore print. Other species of Chlorophyllum are white spored. The white-spored ones are generally considered to have edible caps, although there are reports of people having bad reactions to consuming white spored Chlorophyllum. Genus Leucoagaricus includes some edible types and some that are not recommended. Genus Lepiota includes species that produce mushrooms that look like small versions of Parasol Mushrooms. Lepiota mushrooms should not be consumed; some are dangerously poisonous. 

As was suggested earlier in the discussion, when one wishes to discuss mushroom identification, it's best to create one discussion in the ID forum that is intended for the discussion of one type of mushroom. 

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