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

synonyms: Birken-Risspilz
Inocybe longicystis Mushroom
Ref No: 8650
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Inocybe longicystis Atk. Birken-Risspilz. Cap 2–4cm across, convex at first becoming flattened, cinnamon to darker brown, covered in shaggy fibrous erect scales especially in the centre. Stem 40–70 x 5–7mm, brown with cottony fibres giving it a coarse shaggy appearance. Flesh white. Smell slight. Gills broad, adnexed to adnate, cinnamon. Cystidia thin-walled, cylindric, sometimes with subapical constriction, present on gill edge and gill face. Spore print snuff-brown. Spores oblong with knobby surface, 8–10 x 5–6µ. Habitat amongst moss in mixed woods of pine and birch. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Found In Europe.

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