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Collared Fibrecap

Inocybe cincinnata (Fr.) Quél. 1872

Description:

So I'm sitting at the collection tables after a day of fungus hunting, surrounded by mushrooms, microscopes, keys, drying equipment, and mycologists. One mycologist pokes around in another mycologist's collection basket, inspecting, then holds up a little brown mushroom. "You brought in an Inocybe? Why?" No one cares about Inocybes. With a few purple exceptions, they epitomize the label LBM (Little Brown Mushroom), and are characterized by their brown spore prints, their often conical and usually silky-to-hairy-to-scaly or lacerated caps, and their frequently characteristic odors. There are hundreds of them, and probably hundreds of undocumented, "cryptic" species. In fact Inocybe is often treated less as a genus of mycorrhizal mushrooms than as a mycological rite of passage; if you have not "put a name on" a few Inocybes at some point in your life, good luck getting your (Myco-) Country Club membership ( http://www.mushroomexpert.com/inocybe.ht... ) {HE HAS ALWAYS NICE/FUNNY/INTRESTING STORIES !!!}

Habitat:

location: North America, Europe edibility: Poisonous/Suspect fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown normal size: Less than 5cm cap type: Distinctly scaly stem type: Simple stem flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) spore colour: Rusty brown habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground Inocybe cincinnata (Fr.) Quél. Lilaspitziger Risspilz, Collared Fibrecap. Cap 1–2cm across, bell-shaped then expanding with a broad umbo, reddish-brown, densely covered in minute erect scales. Stem 20–30 x 2–4mm, pallid tinged violaceous at apex, thinly covered in brownish cottony tufts towards the base. Flesh whitish, flushed violet in cap and stem apex. Taste slightly bitter, smell mealy. Gills pallid with a brown edge, then rusty-brown. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia fusoid, bottle-shaped, encrusted apically with crystals and with thickened walls which are yellowish in ammonia. Spore print rust brown. Spores obliquely ovate, smooth, 7.5–9.5 x 4.5–6µ. Habitat damp deciduous and coniferous woods. Season summer. Occasional. Not edible most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Distribution, America and Europe ( http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/D... )

Notes:

Inocybe species are not considered suitable for consumption, although in some under developed countries certain species of Inocybe mushrooms are eaten. Many species contain large doses of muscarine, and no easy method of distinguishing them from potentially edible species exists. In fact, Inocybe is the most commonly-encountered mushroom genus for which microscopic characteristics are the only means of certain identification to the species level. While the vast majority of Inocybes are toxic, seven rare species of Inocybe are hallucinogenic, having been found to contain psilocybin including Inocybe aeruginascens which also contains aeruginascine (N, N, N-trimethyl-4-phosphoryloxytryptamine). ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inocybe#Tox... ), ( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Li... ), ( http://www.webfungi.nl/coppermine/displa... ), ----- muscarin= psychoactiv,harmful/psilocybin= psycoactiv,probably medically usefull (documentation: Inside:Lsd {http://youtu.be/TqX7jcNcIdw} -- NGC)

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AlexKonig
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AlexKonig

Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands

Spotted on Nov 5, 2011
Submitted on Mar 11, 2012

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