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Agaricus is a genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide.Bas C. (1991). A short introduction to the ecology, taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus Agaricus, 21–24. In L.J.L.D. Van Griensven (ed.), ''Genetics and breeding of Agaricus. Pudoc, Wageningen, The Netherlands. The genus includes the common ("button") mushroom ( Agaricus bisporus) and the field mushroom ( Agaricus campestris''), the dominant cultivated mushrooms of the West.
Members of Agaricus are characterized by having a fleshy cap or pileus, from the underside of which grow a number of radiating plates or gills on which are produced the naked spores. They are distinguished from other members of their family, Agaricaceae, by their chocolate-brown spores. Members of Agaricus also have a stem or stipe, which elevates it above the object on which the mushroom grows, or substrate, and a partial veil, which protects the developing gills and later forms a ring or annulus on the stalk.
Usage examples of "agaricus".
The Clathrix tenebrosa does what the Agaricus olearius has no power to do.
There was the dead white shape of Mycelium masses, the grotesqueness of Agaricus, the deformity of Deadly Amanita and of Morel.
I have tried to make this dish a little more palatable by adding mushrooms, our ordinary European mushrooms, Agaricus campestris, which to my perfect stupefaction I found growing here in alpine meadows: but my dear companion told me I should certainly drop down dead, his followers too assured me and one another that I should swell, then drop down dead.
It's the burning flesh of a kind of mushroom, the Agaricus muscarius.
The term 'Agaric' is, of course, more properly applied to the Fungi of the genus Agaricus (see above), but in medicine it has long been applied to this species of fungus, P.