Egghead Mottlegill

Annelaria fimiputris

Forests, parks, pastures. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap grows up to 7 cm across, conical, bell-shaped, greyish-cream, cream, surface smooth or slightly cracked. Young gills greyish, old ones almost black, edges white-dotted. Stem 4-12 (15)x0.5–1 cm, with a ring, above which it is white-dotted, below greyish-brownish. Flesh whitish, mild-tasting, odourless. Characteristic features: cap cream-coloured, stem with a ring. Grows singly, rarely in small groups, on rotted sheep, cow, horse and wild boar dung. Rare, inedible. It has psychotropic properties and is therefore of interest to physicians.