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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Agaricus abruptibulbus, Agaricus albolutescens, Agaricus arorae, Agaricus arvensis, Agaricus augustus, Agaricus aurantioviolaceus, Agaricus benesii, Agaricus bernardii, Agaricus bisporus, Agaricus bitorquis, Agaricus californicus, Agaricus campestris, Agaricus cupreobrunneus, Agaricus deserticola, Agaricus dulcidulus, Agaricus excellens, Agaricus hondensis, Agaricus impudicus, Agaricus inapertus, Agaricus langei, Agaricus lilaceps, Agaricus macrosporus, Agaricus moelleri, Agaricus pattersonae, Agaricus perobscurus, Agaricus pilatianus, Agaricus placomyces, Agaricus pocillator, Agaricus semotus, Agaricus silvaticus, Agaricus silvicola, Agaricus subrufescens, Agaricus subrutilescens, Agaricus xanthodermus, List of Agaricus species. Excerpt: Agaricus subrufescens (syn. Agaricus blazei, Agaricus brasiliensis or Agaricus rufotegulis) is a species of mushroom, commonly known as almond mushroom, mushroom of the sun, God's mushroom, mushroom of life, royal sun agaricus, jisongrong or himematsutake (Japanese:, "princess matsutake") and by a number of other names. Agaricus subrufescens is a choice edible, with a somewhat sweet taste and fragrance of almonds. The fungus is also well known as a medicinal mushroom, for its purported medicinal properties, due to research which indicates it may stimulate the immune system. Agaricus subrufescens was first described by the American botanist Charles Horton Peck in 1893. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was cultivated for the table in the eastern United States. It was discovered again in Brazil during the 1970s, and misidentified as Agaricus blazei Murrill, a species originally described from Florida. It was soon marketed for its purported medicinal properties under various names, including ABM (for Agaricus blazei Murill), cogumelo do sol (mushroom of the sun), cogumelo de Deus (mushroom of God), cogumelo de vida (mushroom of life), himematsutake, royal sun agaricus, Mandelpilz, and almond mushroom. In 2002, Didukh and Wasser correctly rejected the name A. blazei for this species, but unfortunately called the Brazilian fungus A. brasiliensis, a name that had already been used for a different species, Agaricus brasiliensis Fr. (1830). Richard Kerrigan undertook genetic and interfertility testing on several fungal strains, and showed that samples of the Brazilian strains called A. blazei and A. brasiliensis were genetically similar to, and interfertile with, North American populations of Agaricus subrufescens. These tests also found European samples called A. rufotegulis to be of the same species. Because A. subrufescens is the oldest name, it has taxonomical priority. Note that Agaricus blazei Murrill is a perfectly valid name, but for a completely
