The chestnut and horse mushrooms double in size every day.

Not only have the horse mushrooms acted as a great addition to our diet, but later in life they still provide us with very fond memories.

Dangerously similar to the horse mushroom, an edible relative of the supermarket mushroom.

Mainly horse mushrooms, but a handful of parasols too.'

She stooped and plucked up a couple of horse mushrooms, slightly more flavorful cousins to ordinary meadow mushrooms.

Fond memories of my children were revived while reading Nigel Colborn's piece on horse mushrooms in the September issue.

Contains 19 species in six subgroups similar to the horse mushroom, A. arvensis, it has versatile heterothallic life cycles.

Destroying angels can be mistaken for edible fungi such as the button mushroom, meadow mushroom, or the horse mushroom.

Agaricus arvensis, the horse mushroom (excellent edible).

Agaricus arvensis, commonly known as the horse mushroom, is a mushroom of the genus Agaricus.

What Mark calls the horse mushrooms' fructification, or fruiting, is also known as "pinning", and that describes the process perfectly, as each emergent fungus is the size and shape of a pinhead.

Among the appetizers: salad of baked breast of pigeon with horse mushrooms and a beet-root vinaigrette ($14.25) and a salad of candied veal cheeks with kumquats and caraway vinaigrette ($9.25).

When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park, where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk, and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms.

Much prized by farmers and gypsies for generations, the horse mushroom is regarded as one of the most delicious edible fungi, although the fruitbodies of this and other yellow-staining Agaricus species often have a build-up of heavy metals, such as cadmium and copper.

The Development of Agaricus arvensis and A. comtulus.

Agaricus arvensis, the horse mushroom (excellent edible).

Agaricus arvensis has a more robust stature, lacks the bulbous base, and grows in grassy open areas like meadows and fields.

Agaricus arvensis, commonly known as the horse mushroom, is a mushroom of the genus Agaricus.

Some species of Agaricus, such as Agaricus arvensis, have a partial veil that resembles a cogwheel.

It was described as Agaricus arvensis by Jacob Christian Schaeffer in 1762, and given numerous binomial descriptions since.

This fungus resembles the edible mushrooms Agaricus arvensis and A. campestris, and the puffballs (Lycoperdon spp.)

In the early 20th century, American mycologist George F. Atkinson investigated the development of the mushroom Agaricus arvensis by collecting young mushroom buttons (immature fruit bodies with the veil intact and the cap not yet expanded) and observing their growth in the laboratory.