Large umbrella mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) Local name - high cap. Edible mushroom. They are used boiled, fried (only the caps of young fruit bodies), dried. The cap is 5-15 (25) cm in diameter, conical, later conical or flat, with a blunt hump, whitish, grayish, grayish-brownish, with brownish adjacent large scales, darker brown in the center. Plates are free, white. The spore mass is white. Spores 13-18(20) X 8.5-10.5 (13) μm, smooth. Leg (7-20)30 X 1-4 cm, with a tuber at the base, initially brown, later grayish, dark reticulate, eventually corky, with a cavity, with a wide double unstable ring. The flesh is white, over time very dense, crusty at the base. Ecology and distribution Widespread in the temperate zone: in Europe - everywhere, in most of North America, in a large part of Asia (Turkey, Iran, South Caucasus, India, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Siberia, Far East, Japan), in South America (Chile), Australia, Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Zaire), as well as on the islands — Cuba, Solomon Islands, Madagascar, Sri Lanka. The mushroom can be found in forests, parks and gardens, roadsides, lawns, sometimes in groups. Collected in August - October. Culinary value Edible mushroom. They are used boiled, fried (only the caps of young fruit bodies), dried.
