When: 2008-08-06
Collection location: Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co.,California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Debbie Drechsler (debdrex)
No herbarium specimen

Notes: Fruiting alone on a lawn. No yellowing anywhere and no odor. Pileus very smooth, satiny with a slightly depressed umbo. Mild scaling at margin and fibrous. Greyish tan at umbo, slightly darker at margins. 9cm across. Gills are free, chocolate brown, mottled, thin, close. Stipe shiny, narrower at base, with a slight nob. 1.3cm at apex, 8.5cm tall. Annulus is very thin, skirt-like.

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Proposed Name		User		Community Vote
Agaricus xanthodermus Genev.		debdrex		56% (1)
Recognized by sight
Agaricus californicus Peck		darv		55% (1)
Recognized by sight

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Created: 2008-08-09 18:02:05 By: Darvin DeShazer (darv) Summary: Agaricus key This key works best for central/northern California. Dr. Stevens has been studying Agaricus for over two decades and sometimes he is confused! Click here for the KEY

Created: 2008-08-09 17:50:46 By: Debbie Drechsler (debdrex) Summary: In case I’m not the only one… …who needs help differentiating seemingly easy mushrooms, is this A. californicus because of the lack of yellow staining? Anything else?

Observation Created: Sat Aug 09 15:44:17 -0700 2008
Last Modified: Sat Aug 09 15:44:17 -0700 2008 by Debbie Drechsler (debdrex)
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