NOUN | plant | Stropharia hornemannii | a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap |
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Meaning | A gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring. | |
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Member of | Stropharia, genus Stropharia, ring-stalked fungus | genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus |
Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
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