Farmer's Cap

About

Common Names

Farmer's Cap / Kest Feniar (Waejir)

Classification

Culinary Fungus

Description

A multi-stem brown mushroom found in fields and wooded pastureland.

Ecology

Rarity

Distribution

Life Cycle

Uses

Cultivation

Culinary

• Whole Mushroom - Somewhat bland in flavour, but edible.

Medicinal

• Aperient - Farmer's cap if sliced and steeped as tea can aid as an aperient.
• Balsam - The dried and powdered cap is useful as a balsam

Other

History

Cultural

Religious