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Home » Vegetables » Mushrooms » Agaricus Mushrooms » Horse Mushrooms

Horse Mushrooms

In the wild, Horse Mushrooms grow in open fields, verges and meadows. They are now also being cultivated.

The caps are usually 4 ½ to 6 inches wide (12 to 15 cm.) When the mushroom is very young, the cap is more like an oval knob than it is rounded. As the mushroom matures, the caps open up to become as flat as a plate. Cultivated ones are harvested much smaller, while the cap is still closed and it looks like a button mushroom with pale yellow colouring. The caps are white or pale yellow; they start off pale yellow and get whiter as the mushrooms mature.

The stems are long.

Horse Mushrooms are more tasty than regular white mushrooms, and have a faint smell of anise.

Cooking Tips

Don’t eat raw, cook first.

Nutrition

Amateurs picking it in the wild risk confusing it with the poisonous Yellow Staining Mushroom, which is similar in appearance.

Other names

Scientific Name: Agaricus arvensis
Italian: Prataiolo maggiore
French: Agaric des jachères
German: Schaefegerling
Spanish: Bola de neu, Bola de nieve

This page first published: Nov 15, 2003 · Updated: Jun 3, 2018.

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