parasol mushroom

American  

noun

1. a common edible field mushroom, Macrolepiota (Lepiota ) procera, having a light-brown, scaly cap.

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parasol mushroom British  

noun

1. any of several fungi of the basidiomycetous genus Lepiota, having an umbrella-shaped cap, white gills, and a slender brownish stem with a prominent white ring

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Example Sentences

Death cap mushrooms, among the most poisonous in the world, closely resemble Poland’s popular, edible parasol mushroom.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Edible.—The parasol mushroom, Lepiota procera, grows in pastures, lawns, gardens, along roadsides, or in thin woods, or in gardens.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The fungus forms just below the surface of the soil, finally bursting the volva, sending up a parasol mushroom.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha