We saw this in our garden and they continue to grow. A corner in our graden is almost totally covered with this. We want to identify this and want to know how to get rid of them. Are they poisonous?
I've sent a message to Illecippo to ask him to look in, he's very good on European fungus identification.
can you provide more details, like fruiting body smell, sporeprint color, size ? it reminds me somewhat of Agaricus Augustus, however there's something which doesn't convince me. If cut, does it smell like bitter almonds ?
I went to the garden and pulled out two pcs from the ground. The diameter is about 12 cm (ave.) and the smell is strong. I'm not sure whether the smell is of almond (am not very familiar with almond smell) but smells "sweet".
Lepiota acutesquamosa or some closely related species. Please see this: http://www.svims.ca/council/Lepiota.htm Harri Harmaja http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/harmaja/about_myself.htm
Another Lepiota of some kind would be my guess on this one as well. Agaricus species have brown spores whereas this one clearly shows white spores at the apex of the stalk in one photo. Agaricus augustus is 100% *out* of this particular ID line-up.
