Agrocybe is a genus of mushrooms in the family Strophariaceae (previously placed in the Bolbitiaceae).

Mushroom cultivation began with the Romans and Greeks, who grew the small Agrocybe aegerita.

The Romans believed that fungi fruited when lightning struck.

[3] It is cultivated and sold in Japan, Korea, Australia and China.

[4] Agrocybe farinacea of Japan, a species closely related to Agrocybe putaminum,[5] has been reported to contain the hallucinogen psilocybin;[6] however, there has been no recent chemical analysis carried out on this mushroom, nor any modern reports of psychoactivity.