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Inocybe margaritispora.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • synonyms: Sternsporiger Risspilz
    Inocybe margaritispora Mushroom
    Ref No: 8653
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    location: Europe
    edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
    fungus colour: White to cream, Yellow, Brown
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Distinctly scaly
    stem type: Bulbous base of stem, Simple stem
    flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
    spore colour: Light to dark brown
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Inocybe margaritispora (Berk. apud Cke.) Sacc. Sternsporiger Risspilz. Cap 3–6cm across, bell-shaped, surface disrupting into rather dispersed yellowish-brown scales on a whitish background. Stem 40–100 x 4–10mm, rather tall and straight with a slightly flattened bulb, whitish becoming flushed yellowish-brown, finely mealy at apex. Flesh white. Smell fruity. Gills whitish at first then clay-brown. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia bottle-shaped, with thickened walls especially towards the apex which in encrusted with crystals. Spore print brown. Spores almost star-shaped with 5–6 prominent knobs, 8.5–11 x 6–7.5µ. Habitat hazel copses. Season summer. Rare. Not edible most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Found In Europe.

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