Calocybe
Encyclopedia
Calocybe is a small genus
of about 40 species of mushroom
, including St. George's mushroom, which is edible
, and milky mushroom, which is edible and is cultivated in India. There are not many species of this genus in Britain
. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek
terms kalos "pretty", and cubos "head". Around nine species are found in neotropical regions.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of about 40 species of mushroom
Mushroom
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...
, including St. George's mushroom, which is edible
Edible mushroom
Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruiting bodies of several species of fungi. Mushrooms belong to the macrofungi, because their fruiting structures are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. They can appear either below ground or above ground where they may be picked by hand...
, and milky mushroom, which is edible and is cultivated in India. There are not many species of this genus in Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
terms kalos "pretty", and cubos "head". Around nine species are found in neotropical regions.
Species
- Calocybe alneti
- Calocybe atropapillata
- Calocybe bipigmentata
- Calocybe carneaCalocybe carneaCalocybe carnea is a small pink-capped mushroom with white gills that can be found in grassy meadows, fields, or on lawns from spring to autumn in Europe and North America. Its common names include pink fairhead and pink domecap...
- Pink Fairhead - Calocybe cerina
- Calocybe chrysenteron
- Calocybe civilis
- Calocybe clusii
- Calocybe coniceps
- Calocybe constricta
- Calocybe cyanea (Puerto Rico, Brazil)
- Calocybe cyanella
- Calocybe cyanocephala
- Calocybe eborina
- Calocybe fallax
- Calocybe gambosa - St. George's Mushroom
- Calocybe georgii
- Calocybe indica - milky mushroom
- Calocybe ionides
- Calocybe onychina
- Calocybe rubra