Wine cap
Stropharia rugosoannulata · 大球盖菇
Occasional球盖菇科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
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 wine-red to brown, large; gills grayish purple, aging to black
- Stem thick and white, with a thick, toothed ring
- Grows on wood chips and mulch, common in cultivation and flower beds
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 球盖菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Leaf Litter
- How Big
- 5–20 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Ground mulched with straw or wood chips
Fun Fact
Markets sell it as 'red matsutake,' but it isn't even in the same family as true matsutake — the cap color is just a coincidence.