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Introduction to Fungi, Third Edition

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EUAGARICS CLADE<br />

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Fig19.14 Basidiocarps in the euagarics clade (1). (a)The commercial mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. (b) The parasol mushroom,<br />

Macrolepiota procera. In mature specimens the ring is moveable. (c) Coprinus comatus, the shaggy inkcap or lawyer’s wig. (d) Coprinus<br />

cinereus fruiting in the labora<strong>to</strong>ry on a dung/straw mixture. (e) Pleurotus ostreatus,theoystermushroom.<br />

widespread cultivars used in the mushroom<br />

industry originated in France, where it is called<br />

champignon de Paris or champignon de couche.<br />

There are probably about seven such ancestral<br />

lineages (Callac, 1995). Specimens growing in<br />

nature belong <strong>to</strong> two distinct groups, namely<br />

genetically diverse indigenous populations and<br />

more uniform ‘cultivar-like’ populations<br />

which probably represent escapes from cultivation<br />

(Xu et al., 1997). Mushroom cultivation is<br />

now an important industry in temperate countries,<br />

and technical details have been described<br />

by van Griensven (1988) and Chang and Miles<br />

(2004). In 1996 global production exceeded

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