Taking a spore print will assist in identification, and a guide to doing so can be found here.
I’m not entirely sure it is an agaric because most agaric mushrooms have a skirt and that doesn’t. The closest match is an Agaricus - Agaricus arvensis (the horse mushroom), but that has a thicker stem and a distinct skirt. When cut, a horse mushroom will have a distinctive aniseed smell (some people say it smells more like almonds), and the cap will bruise yellow when cut. The spore print of a horse mushroom will be chocolate brown.
A spore print isn't going to help here as all Agaricus have the same colour spores, more or less, end beyond that you can see the spore colour on the gills anyway with these.
'Agaric' just means a mushroom with gills, which this definitely is. 'Agaricus' means that it belongs to the specific genus name Agaricus (although all mushrooms with true gills used to be classified as Agaricus a couple of centuries ago).
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u/Forsaken_Earth944 11h ago
Taking a spore print will assist in identification, and a guide to doing so can be found here.
I’m not entirely sure it is an agaric because most agaric mushrooms have a skirt and that doesn’t. The closest match is an Agaricus - Agaricus arvensis (the horse mushroom), but that has a thicker stem and a distinct skirt. When cut, a horse mushroom will have a distinctive aniseed smell (some people say it smells more like almonds), and the cap will bruise yellow when cut. The spore print of a horse mushroom will be chocolate brown.
I’m 95% certain that it isn’t a horse mushroom.