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The parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera, Lepiota procera) - edible mushroom. Culinary usage. Mushrooming.

Parasols can be found alone but generally, they are found in rings or sometimes troops. As stated above, nothing else really gets this big apart from Shaggy Parasols. You can often spot them from quite a distance along the edges of fields, woods, and roads.
Parasols are generally whiter than their cousins the Shaggy Parasols, but the Shaggys do have a white variant, so apart from the fact Parasols get marginally bigger than shaggy, the way to tell the difference is that the stem of the shaggy parasol will blush reddish when bruised or cut and never has the snakeskin effect of the true Parasol.
Parasol is the better of the two mushrooms to cook with as there are some who suffer slight gastric abnormalities after eating Shaggy Parasols.
Parasols have a great mushroomy flavor, but but don’t be fooled by their starting size as they shrink a lot during cooking.

Excellent, fried, dried, sauteed, in stews, or anywhere you are likely to use a mushroom. One of our favourites. Should be cooked before consumption.

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