Beautiful cobweb (Cortinarius rubellus)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs)
- Genus: Cortinarius (Spiderweb)
- Type: Cortinarius rubellus (Beautiful cobweb)
The webcap is beautiful (lat. Cortinarius rubellus) is a species of fungus belonging to the genus Cobweb (Cortinarius) of the Cobweb family (Cortinariaceae). Deadly poisonous, contains slow-acting toxins that cause kidney failure.
Grows in moist coniferous forests. It occurs mainly among mosses from May to September.
Cap 3-8 cm in ∅, or, with a sharp tubercle, the surface is finely scaly, reddish-orange, reddish-orange, brown.
Pulp, tasteless, with or without a rare smell.
The plates are rare, adherent to the stem, thick, wide, orange-ocher, rusty-brown in old age. Spore powder is rusty brown. Spores are almost spherical, rough.
Leg 5-12 cm long, 0,5-1 cm ∅, cylindrical, dense, orange-brown, with ocher or lemon-yellow bands – remnants of cobwebs.
Mushroom deadly poisonous. Its effect on the body is the same as that of the orange-red cobweb.