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Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, commonly known as the weeping widow mushroom, is a species of fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. It is found in North America, Central America, Europe, northern Asia, and New Zealand, where it grows on disturbed ground in woodland, gardens, and parks.
Commonly referred to as the Weeping Widow, because of the black, watery droplets that appear at the cap rim and on te edges of the gills when they are moist, this large grassland fungus is an occasional species in parkland, open woodland, lawns, fields and roadside verges.
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Lacrymaria lacrymabunda is an edible mushroom in the family Psathyrellaceae. The mushroom is characterized by its robust fruit body, with a yellowish-brown fibrillose cap, thick gills that produce black spores, a yellowish-brown fibrillose stem, and a persistent fibrillose-cottony ring around the stem. The mushroom grows in grassy areas, parks, ope...
Cap The weeping widow mushroom has a 0.11-0.39 in (3–10 cm) wide cap. It is convex when young, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly flat; dry; finely appressed-fibrillose when fr...Gills Closely attached to the stem, with short gills that are initially pale but darken to grayish brown and eventually dark brown, and has a mottled appearance and whitish edges at maturity.Stem 1.6-3.9 in (4-10 cm) long and 0.16-0.39 in (4-10 mm) thick. The stem has a fibrillose or nearly bald surface with a fragile ring or ring zone that darkens due to spores and is white on top, pa...Flesh Whitish to watery brownish; unchanging when sliced.Lacrymaria echiniceps Similar but has a more prominently fibrillose-scaly cap, a scaly stem, and smaller spores.Lacrymaria pyrotricha Has an orange colored cap skin.In 1785 the French mycologist Jean Baptiste Francois (Pierre) Bulliard described this species and gave it the binomial name Agaricus lacrymabundus. In 1887 Narcisse Theophile Patouillard transferred this mushroom to its present genus, establishing its currently-accepted scientific name as Lacrymaria lacrymabunda. The generic name Lacrymaria means p...
Agaricus lacrymabundus Bull. (1785)Agaricus areolatus Klotzsch 1836Agaricus lacrymabundus Bull., 1785Agaricus lacrymabundus subsp. velutinus (Pers.) Fr.Lacrymaria lacrymabunda, also known as the Weeping Widow, is a medium-sized agaric with a yellowish-brown cap with a ragged margin, dark brown gills, and a ring zone. It grows solitary or in tufts, on soil among grass by paths in woods and on roadside verges. Cap ochraceous-tan, becomes darker brown.
Weeping Widow. Unlike the name suggests the Weeping Widow is not a poisonous mushroom but has a bitter taste making it rather inedible. The ‘weeping’ seems to refer to the droplets of water, usually blackened by the spores, that drip from the edges of the cap. Please note that each and every mushroom you come across may vary in appearance ...
The Weeping Widow (Lacrymaria lacrymabunda) has got to have one of the best common names I’ve heard of even though it has a negative vibe about it. It sounds like a toadstool you should avoid at all costs, but never fear, this mushroom is not poisonous but is in fact edible, though unfortunately a little bitter.
