Coprinopsis picacea    (Bull.:Fr.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo 

common name(s) : Magpie Inkcap, Magpie Mushroom, Magpie Cap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Psathyrellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Agaricales/Coprinaceae  

synonyms: Coprinus picaceus 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of Coprinopsis picacea
photo gallery of Coprinopsis picacea potential confusions with Coprinopsis picacea toxicity of Coprinopsis picacea genus Coprinopsis  

The cap is grey brown to black brownish. The cap surface is covered with white patches.

The flesh is unchanging; the odour is unpleasant, of ink or phenol; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then pink then black, adnate, crowded . The spore print is black. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from April to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 20 cm)
  height of stem approximately 17 cm (between 7.5 and 30 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 14 mm (between 6 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : conical or bell-shaped cap, brownish-black, covered with woolly white patches; unpleasant smell, of tar; mild but unpleasant taste; tall stem; under deciduous trees (mostly beech)

Coprinopsis picacea is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Coprinopsis picacea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Coprinopsis picacea in the forest of Rambouillet



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