Question:

After the rainy season, there appears the colony of big fungi which produces lots of whorl palta on its pileus? What kind is these fungi? Is it edible?

Answer:

This fungi is called “Chlorophllum molybdites (Meyer:Fr.) Massee”. It grows up alone or in colony on the grassy land or under the bush. It scatters around the subtropical and tropical zone. It might grow in colony and in a fungi-circle, popular called “fairy ring”.This kind of fungi is poisonous.There are many cases of wrongly eating the poisonous fungi in Taiwan.The most significant characteristic of the fungi is that as its gills ripen, they become to be in light-green to green-brown color.