Inocybe cookei    Bres. 

common name(s) : Straw Fibrecap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Inocybaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Inocybeae  

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of Inocybe cookei
photo gallery of Inocybe cookei potential confusions with Inocybe cookei toxicity of Inocybe cookei genus Inocybe  

The cap is straw yellow to ochre or orange, conical then expanded, with a prominent central umbo; its margin is cracked. The cap surface is radially fibrillose, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white then ochraceous in places, bulbous.

The flesh is white then straw yellow with age, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, of honey, then rank; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, ochre greyish then cinnamon brown, emarginate to adnate, not very crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 17 ). The spore print is tobacco brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in mixed woods, wood edges or gardens, on a rather calcareous soil, with birch, hazel, beech, spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 3 and 14 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : straw yellow to ochre cap, with fibrils and sharp umbo; whitish then brown gills; bulbous whitish stem; honey smell

Inocybe cookei is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Inocybe cookei in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Inocybe cookei in the forest of Rambouillet



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