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The Cryptogams Gallery

Capped Mushrooms - Large

Mushrooms and molds are fungus.  A fungus is not a true plant.  It does not photosynthesize light into a food source.  The structures we see and call mushrooms are the reproductive parts of a fungus that lives underground or under bark.

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? Common Name **zm 4** Scientific Name

6"-8" wide and 12" tall mushrooms.  Top is cream color with a raised brown center.  Liquid drops are amber color.  Underneath fans are rust colored.  Stalk is 3/4"-1" thick.  Found in a mowed bar ditch of a county road.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, November 2004

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Division Basidiomycota     Family Agaricaceae

Likely   The Prince Agaricus augustus

6" wide and 3" tall mushrooms.  Top is very flat, cream/light brown color, with cracks resembling a pancake.  Small ring around stem is very scaly.  Underneath fans are light brown colored.  Stalk is 3/4"-1" thick.  Found in a sorghum/sudan grass field.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, July 2007

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? Common Name **zm 7** Scientific Name

Golden mushrooms are 2"-3" tall and wide.  Similar to Agaricus augustus, except smaller and light gills.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, May 2006

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? Common Name **zm 8** Scientific name

White mushroom with a 3" wide cap.  Stem does not have ring.

Photos taken in Van Zandt County, Texas, November 2006

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? Common Name **zm 11** Scientific name

Pearly brown cap, 2 1/2" wide.  Pinkish stem does not have ring.  Gills are very dark brown.  Growing in donkey dung.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, May 2007

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? Common Name **zm 15** Scientific name

White cap mushroom, 4" wide, with brown scales.  White/light brown stem has brown ring.  Gills are white.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, September 2006

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