Pacific Forestry Centre's Forest Pathology Herbarium

DAVFP: 29948

Fungus name: Agaricus arvensis Schaeff.:Fr.

Substrate: Soil and Duff

Year of collection (y-m-d): 2000-09-20

Map coordinates: 49.5510°N, -119.5611°W

Collector: Ginns, J.

Determiner: Ginns, J.

Collection location: E of 2050 Sutherland Rd., 300 m S of Turnbull Creek, 560 m elev., Penticton, B.C.

Remarks: On ground at base of dead Populus tremuloides on earth dam of pond. Habitat not strictly grassy but cows graze area. Cluster various ages. Cap smooth, staining distinct yellow, largest 39 cm diam, like kid leather with scattered oppressed white, scales stipe surfacestaining yellow but not intensely so, core white not staining, with hollow centre when broad. KOH (2% +) yellow on cap near margin of stipe surface, but not on stipe flesh at base. Odour: flesh cap and stipe base nil. Veil skirtlike. Spores broad ellip, smooth. Stipe slightly broader at midpoint, 9 x 2 cm., surface smooth, white.

Gene bank accession data: None

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