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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 468

Q468

Scientific name of White Button Mushroom is

A.
Pleurotus sajarcaju
B.
Volvariella displacia
C.
Agaricus bisporus
Answer
D.
Lentinus edodes

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The scientific name of the White Button Mushroom is Agaricus bisporus.
Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It is originally a gilled fungus.
It was first described by English botanist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in his 1871 Handbook of British Fungi, as a variety (var. hortensis) of Agaricus campestris.