Hare's Foot Inkcap

Coprinus lagopus

Forests, parks, gardens. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1.5-3 (4) cm across, ovoid-cylindrical when young, later bell-shaped, white-fibrous, finally shaped like an open umbrella, grey, the margin grooved. Gills white, soon becoming grey, then black. Stem 7-15x0.3-0.8 cm, thickening towards the base, white-woolly, hairy, fibrous, smooth when old. Flesh thin, whitish, odourless. Characteristic features: the fungus is fragile, cap grey, white-fibrous, as if scurfy. Grows singly, among grass, on rotten wood. Common. 85 species of Coprinus have been described, 31 found in Lithuania, all saprotrophs; some have antibiotic medicinal properties, they are a good subject of laboratory research, and physicians take an interest in them.