Parasol mushroom
Macrolepiota procera · 高大环柄菇
Common蘑菇科🔥 Edible With Preparation
Sources report it requires expert processing before it can be eaten; cases of poisoning from improper handling have been recorded.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap large and flat, with brown scales arranged in concentric rings
- Stem slender, patterned like snakeskin
- Ring thick and movable up and down the stem
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 蘑菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Grassland
- How Big
- 10–30 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Grassy woodland edges
Easily Confused With
Green-spored parasolParasol mushroom's gills stay white and its stem has a snakeskin pattern; green-spored parasol's gills turn green.
Deadly dapperlingParasol mushroom is far larger, with a snakeskin-patterned stem and a movable ring.
Shaggy parasolCap brown, covered in coarse, upturned scalesFun Fact
Its stem carries a snakeskin-like brown pattern, and the ring can slide up and down; the green-spored parasol it's often confused with has, as the name suggests, a green spore print.
More in this family
- Almond mushroom
- Button mushroom
- Common puffball
- Field mushroom
- Flowerpot parasol
- Giant puffball
- Horse mushroom
- Shaggy ink cap
- Yellow stainer