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Hard Agrocybe
(Agrocybe dura)
Hard Agrocybe sculpture
Hard Agrocybe
sculpture, acrylic paint
by "Wildman"
The hard agrocybe has a beige to brown dry, convex cap, sometimes with a low knob, 1-5/8 to 4 inches wide. The older caps develop prominent cracks, making this mushroom easy to identify.

Hard Agrocybe, Side View
Hard Agrocybe, side view
photo by "Wildman"

The broad white gills, which attach to the stem, become brown as the mushroom ages. The spore print is dark brown.

The white to beige solid stalk is 1-5/8 to 4 inches long, 1/4 to 5/8 inches thick. A faint ring encircles the stalk (or remnants of this partial veil may hang from the cap margin) when the mushroom is young.
Hard Agrocybe, from below
Hard Agrocybe, from below
photo by "Wildman"

This decomposer grows on wood chips in great quantity in the spring, throughout the northern US, in the spring.

Although non-poisonous, it's so terrible-tasting I consider it inedible.

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