Agrocybe

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Agaricales
Agrocybe praecox
Agrocybe praecox
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Bolbitiaceae
Genus: Agrocybe
species

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Agrocybe is a genus of mushrooms, most which are poisonous. The edible mushrooms of the species are not easy to identify and it is safer to avoid the entire genus when mushroom hunting for consumption.

The species Agrocybe aegerita, known as Chestnut mushroom, is cultivated and sold in Japan and Australia.

[edit] List of Species

  • Agrocybe acericola (maple agrocybe)
  • Agrocybe aegerita
  • Agrocybe amara
  • Agrocybe arvalis
  • Agrocybe cylindracea
  • Agrocybe dura
  • Agrocybe erebia
  • Agrocybe firma
  • Agrocybe molesta
  • Agrocybe paludosa
  • Agrocybe pediades
  • Agrocybe praecox
  • Agrocybe retigera
  • Agrocybe semiorbicularis
  • Agrocybe sororia
  • Agrocybe vervacti

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