Spring Fieldcap
Spring Fieldcap - Agrocybe praecox
Convex light-brown/ochre cap, becoming flatter as it ages, with a darker centre. Surface of cap cracking in dry weather. Gills adnate, pale brown, darkening with age; spore print brown. A thin, pendent and short-lived ring on the stem. The stem base usually has white hyphal cords.
other Agrocybe - and small brown mushrooms
Photograph top down, in side view and underneath cap to show gills and full length of stipe, including stem base; note habitat and substrate.
Woodland, scrub, grassland, roadside verges, gardens, often on woodchip mulch
spring and early summer
This is probably a species complex involving several other Agrocybe, not yet determined as British species.
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