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Wine-cap Stropharia

Stropharia rugosoannulata

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 81, February 60, March 94, April 147, May 212, June 232, July 248, August 213, September 156, October 117, November 64, December 50.
United States4,993
Alaska1,673
Pennsylvania1,211
New York1,073
New Jersey461
Canada422
Virginia284
New Zealand270
Maryland256
Ontario254

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • DecomposerBreaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrientsFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderCommon Gilled Mushrooms and Allies · Agaricales
FamilyStrophariaceae
GenusRoundheads · Stropharia

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Wine-cap Stropharia with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.