 I am L-E-R-I-A-B-O-D-E-A, Im-L-E-R-E-A-B-O-D-E-A. Commonly known as the Bay-Bow-L-Eat, is inedible. Poured mushroom found in Europe and North America, where it grows in coniferous or mixed woods on the ground or on decaying tree stumps, sometimes in prolific numbers. Both the common and scientific names refer to the Bay, or Chestnut colored cap, which is almost spherical in young specimens before broadening and flattening out to a diameter of 2 15 cm 6 in. On the cap underside are small yellowish ports that turn dull blue-gray when bruised. The smooth, cylindrical type, measuring 4 to 9 cm 1.6 to 3.5 in long I 1 to 2 cm 0.4 to 0.8 in thick, is colored like the cap, but paler. Some varieties have been described from Eastern North America, differing from the main type in both macroscopic and microscopic morphology. First described scientifically by Elias Freis in 1818, the Bay-Bow-L-Eat was reclassified as zirachome use be deused in 1931, and it is still listed thus in several sources. Modern molecular phylogenetic studies show zirachome use to be polythritic not descended from a common ancestor and the Bay-Bow-L-Eat is not particularly closely related to species in that genus. Often considered the poor relation of the Sep-Bow-L-Eat as a gulley's eye-bodia is nevertheless regarded as a choice-edible mushroom by some authors, such as food expert Antonio Carluchio, and is sold in markets in Europe and Central Mexico. These mushrooms are less often infested by magas than other bullies. Several European studies have demonstrated that the mushroom can bioaccumulate some trace metals from the soil, such as mercury, cobalt, and nickel. Additionally, the mushroom contains a pigment that concentrates radioactive cesium, specimens collected in Europe following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster contained several times more cesium 137 than those collected before the incident.