Fairy Inkcap

Coprinus disseminatus – Inedible

Forests, parks, gardens. Summer, autumn.

Delicate, tiny fruiting bodies. Cap 0.5-1 (2) cm across, furrowed, somewhat pleated, white-fibrous, brownish-grey, yellowish. Gills greyish, old ones brownish-black. Stem 2–3x0.1–0.15 cm, white, very fragile. Flesh thin, without any particular smell. Characteristic features: grows in large colonies, groups and tufts on and around rotten snags, windfalls and stumps. Grows in summer and autumn. Saprotroph, inedible. Very common. A good sanitiser of nature, a brisk decomposer of rotting wood.