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

Inocybe haemacta Mushroom
Ref No: 8642
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Green, Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods

Inocybe haemacta (Berk. & Cke) Saccardo. Bleicher Risspilz. Cap 2–5cm across, bell-shaped with an umbo, pale greenish buff ground and broken up into coarse fibrous scales reddening when damaged. Stem 40–70 x 4–8mm, light soon flushed red-brown, slightly swollen at the base, pruinose throughout. Flesh reddening. Taste mild, smell weak or strong of horse manure. Gills adnate, pale clay. Cystidia elongate-fusoid with apical encrustation, pale yellowish. Spore print snuff-brown. Spores smooth, almond-shaped, 89–12 x 4.5–6um. Habitat broad-leaf woods. Season autumn. uncommon. Not edible -most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Distribution, Europe. Distinguished by the red coloring.

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