Bittersweet Fibrecap

Inocybe dulcamara – Poisonous

Forests, shrublands, roadsides. Summer (even spring), autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-3 (6) cm across, irregularly flattened, with an inconspicuous umbo, sometimes barely depressed, fibrous or even scaly, yellowish-brown, greenish-brownish-yellow. Gills pale greyish-yellow, later greenish-brown, notched. Stem 3-7x0.3-0.8 cm, whitish, yellowish, brown when old, sometimes with a ring-like remnant of the veil. Flesh thin, yellowish-brownish, bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: greenish-yellowish-brownish fruiting bodies, growing in groups. Appears in coniferous and deciduous forests, favouring sandy, stony soil. Poisonous, very common. Similar to the sour woodtuft, but that one grows only on wood.