Forest Inkcap

Coprinus silvaticus

Deciduous forests, parks, roadsides, homesteads. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-5 cm across, bell-shaped when young, later conically bell-shaped, pleated-lobed, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, with glittering particles, when old becoming brownish-grey, the margin blackish. Gills whitish, old ones black. Stem 3-8 (10)x0.3–0.5 cm, whitish, brownish when old. Flesh thin, white, brownish, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: very similar to the glistening inkcap, but grows in much smaller groups or even singly. Grows in summer and autumn on rotten wood lying on the ground and on the soil surface. Rare, a wood saprotroph. Food value unknown.