From: ir@ene.nu   
      
   On 28 May 2006 20:40:08 -0700, docmaas@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >Found this in a compost pile at a friends house in Port Matilda,   
   >Pennsylvania.  Gills are chocolate brown as are the spores.  Cap is   
   >very heavily cracked.  Looks a little like some sample of stropharia I   
   >see on the web.   I don't have any of my books with me so haven't keyed   
   >it out.  It is a big mushroom about 9-10" across.  It was growing with   
   >smaller mushrooms that also had the beige cap and brown spores but they   
   >were younger and smaller and had white gills that were veiled   
   >initially.   
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   >http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938422/large   
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   >http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938424/large   
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   >http://www.pbase.com/masimo/image/60938426/large   
      
   Looks to me like an Agrocybe, but I don't know what species you might   
   have with such big caps. At least I have seen descriptions around 6"   
   of Agrocybe cylindracea/aegerita.   
      
   Irene Andersson   
      
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