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Inocybe margaritispora

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Mushrooms

By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Inocybe margaritispora (Cooke) Sacc. (illustrated 50% life size) Cap 3–6cm across, bell-shaped; surface disrupting into rather dispersed, yellowish-brown scales on a whitish background. Stem 40–100×4–10mm, rather tall, straight, slightly flattened bulb; whitish then flushed yellowish-brown; finely mealy at apex. Flesh white; smell fruity. Gills adnexed; whitish, then clay-brown. Spores 8.5–11×6–7.5¼, almost star-shaped, with 5–6 prominent knobs. Spore print brown. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia bottle-shaped, with thickened walls especially towards the apex, which is encrusted with crystals. Habitat in hazel copses; summer. Uncommon. Unknown edibility, best avoided.

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