Inocybe eutheles (Berk. & Br.) Quél. Bleicher Risspilz. Cap 24cm across, bell-shaped with prominent umbo, pale buff and broken up into coarse fibrous scales, paler at margin. Stem 4070 x 510mm, white flushed flesh-colour, slightly swollen at the base, pruinose throughout. Flesh white, unchanging. Taste mild, smell earthy. Gills adnate, pale clay with white edge. Cystidia thick-walled elongate-fusoid with apical encrustation, pale yellowish. Spore print snuff-brown. Spores smooth, almond-shaped, 8.510 x 45µ. Habitat with conifers. Season autumn. Frequent. Not edible most Inocybes have been found to contain toxins. Distribution, America and Europe. |