| Inocybe maculata Boud. |
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common name(s) : Frosty Fibrecap
edibility : poisonous
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The cap is chestnut reddish brown to tawny brown, often with veil remnants at the centre making silver-grey stains, conical to campanulate, with a noticeable central umbo; its margin is cracked, torn. The cap surface is radially fibrillose, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white then washed with red-brown, especially in the middle, slightly swollen towards base, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is aromatic, of truffles, jasmine, gingerbread or brioche bread coming out of the oven ; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white then grey brown, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is tobacco brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in grassland or with mud, along damp paths, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, alder, hornbeam. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : Dark chestnut-brown fibrillose cap with umbo, with white flakes (remnants of veil) at the centre, radially cracked; fruity and non spermatic odour; stem washed with orange-red at mid-height; in damp areas along paths in woods Inocybe maculata is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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