Inocyboid agarics

White Fibrecap

Inocybe geophylla

LC Least concern Poisonous 7 images

Characteristics

– Cap white, silky-shiny, radially fibrillose, often with an umbo.
– Gills emarginate, white at first, becoming brown from the spores with age.
– Stem white, smooth.
– Smell spermatic.

Ecology

Grows in deciduous and coniferous forests throughout the Nordic countries.

Notes

A small, slender gilled mushroom with a maximum cap width of 3-4 cm. Contains the neurotoxic mushroom poison muscarine.

Similar species

There are several similar fibrecaps in the genus, for example Inocybe umbratica and I. sindonia.