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Cultivated Agaricus

The Chameleons

Appears in
The Mushroom Cookbook

By Michael Hyams and Liz O'Keefe

Published 2017

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Encompasses
Button, closed-cup or cremini, giants, flat, chestnut, brown cap, black poplar, portobello, Paris mushroom, Paris white
Latin Name
Agaricus bisporus
Usually Found
They are found everywhere – where people eat mushrooms, this mushroom will be grown commercially
Season
Summer to autumn, but available all year

We all know the mushroom Agaricus bisporus very well: these are the mushrooms in your punnets, supermarkets, delis, restaurant and fields. Button mushrooms, closed-cup mushrooms and flat mushrooms are all the same white type of Agaricus bisporus, just at different growing stages (two days, four days and six days, respectively). And it’s the same for chestnut mushrooms and portobello mushrooms, which are different sizes of the brown strain. For wild Agaricus.

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