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Mousseron

A Team Player

Appears in
The Mushroom Cookbook

By Michael Hyams and Liz O'Keefe

Published 2017

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Other Names
Fairy ring, Scotch bonnet
Latin Name
Marasmius oreades
Usually Found In
UK, Europe, the USA, Canada
Season
April to May, then September to October
Surrounded by mystery for centuries, mousserons are the perfect natural props for any fairytale. Rumoured to be prevalent throughout the Stonehenge circle, mousserons belong to the family Marasmius, which are all known as ‘fairy ring mushrooms’ because they often grow together in circles. Many folk laws and legends imbue these light-brown mushrooms with significance, with some suggesting they are the work of fairies themselves, when of course in fact they are connected by a ecological system below the grass they grow on. The French name ‘mousseron’ simply means to grow on moss.

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