Champignon double (Agaricus bisporus)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Agaricus (Champignon)
- Species: Agaricus bisporus (Champignon double)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Champignon royal
Synonyms:
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Champignon two-spore
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Champignon royal
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Champignon brown
Description: A cap of a double-stemmed champignon, hemispherical, with a curled edge, slightly depressed, with remnants of a veil along the edge, light, brownish, with brown spots, radially fibrous or finely scaly. There are three color forms: in addition to brown, there are artificially bred white and cream, with smooth, shiny caps. The size of the cap is 5-15 centimeters in diameter, in isolated cases – up to 30-33 cm.
The plates are frequent, free, first gray-pink, then dark brown, dark brown with a purple tint.
The spore powder is dark brown.
The leg is thick, 3-8 cm long and 1-3 cm in diameter, cylindrical, sometimes narrowed to the base, smooth, made, one-color with a cap, with brownish spots. The ring is simple, narrow, thick, white.
The pulp is dense, fleshy, whitish, slightly pink at the cut, with a pleasant mushroom smell.
Distribution: Double-peeled champignon grows from the very end of May to the end of September in open spaces and cultivated soil, next to humans, in gardens, vegetable gardens, in greenhouses and ditches, on the streets, in pastures, rarely in forests, on soil where there is very little or no grass, not often. Cultivated in many countries.
Evaluation: Champignon double – Delicious edible mushroom (2 categories), used like other types of champignons.
A photo of the Champignon double-peeled mushroom from the recognition questions:
2017.05.24 Tatiana 
2017.12.31 Mark
