Fissured fiber (Inocybe rimosa)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Inocybaceae (Fibrous)
- Genus: Inocybe (Fiber)
- Type: Inocybe rimosa (Fissured fibre)
- Inocybe fastigiata
External Description
Cap 3-7 cm in diameter, pointed-conical at an early age, later practically open, but with a rather sharp hump, splitting, clearly radially fibrous, ocher to dark brown. Brownish or olive-yellow plates. A smooth whitish-ocher or white stem, clavate-widened at the bottom, has a thickness of 4-10 mm and a length of 4-8 cm. Elliptical, smooth spores of a dirty yellow color, 11-18 x 5-7,5 microns.
Edibility
Fibrous fibrous deadly poisonous! Contains the poison muscarine.
Habitat
Often found in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests, in apiaries, along paths, in forest glades, in parks.
Season
Summer autumn.
Similar species
The inedible fiber is fine-haired, distinguished by dark scales on the cap, white edges of the plates and a red-brown top.