Latin name | Agaricus campestris L. ex Fries |
Family | Agaricaceae |
Identified with (Lat) | Psalliota campestris (L.) Fr. |
Identified with (Skt) | chatraka, bhūchatrā |
Identified with (Hin) | kumbī, kumī, sampakichatrī |
Identified with (Tam) | nāykkuṭai |
Identified with (Mal) | kūṇ |
Identified with (Eng) | Mushroom, Common mushroom |
Botanical info | A fungus growing throughout India, on dead organic matter, mature has underground rhizomorphs, a cylindral aerial stipe bearing an annulus, umbrella-shaped fleshy pileus
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Search occurrence | chatraka, bhūchatrā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts |
See plant's image | Agaricus campestris L. ex Fries in Google image search |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. S-333) nāykkuṭai: Mushroom
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