Magpie inkcap

Description:

Cap 5–8cm high, cylindrical-ovate to conical, broadly bell-shaped when expanded, white then sepia-grey finally black covered in white to clay-pink patches of veil remnant. Stem 90–300 x 6–15mm, with woolly bulbuous base, white. Smell unpleasant. Gills white then clay-pink, finally black and deliquescing. Spore print black. Spores ellipsoid.

Habitat:

Habitat on alkaline soil, usually in beech woods. Season late summer to autumn.