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Lilac Fibrecap

Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina

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By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Lilac Fibrecap Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina (Peck) Gillet (illustrated 60% life size) Cap as I. geophylla (above) except for the striking lilac colour, often with ochraceous flush at umbo. Stem lilac with ochraceous base. Flesh violaceous; taste acrid, smell strongly earthy or mealy. Gills crowded, adnexed; clay-coloured. Spores 7–10Γ—5.5–6ΒΌ, slightly almond-shaped, smooth. Spore print walnut-brown. Cystidia thick-walled, fusoid, with apical encrustation. Habitat in woods of all kinds; summer to autumn. Frequent. Poisonous.

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