Inocybe tricolor
Inocybe tricolor is a rare member of the genus Inocybe that is widely distributed in temperate forests. It is a small mycorrhizal mushroom that contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. Inocybe tricolor is found under Norway spruce in central Europe.
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 | gills on hymenium |
  | cap is flat or umbonate |
 | hymenium is adnate |
 | stipe is bare |
 | spore print is tan to yellow |
 | ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | edibility: psychoactive |
Description
- Cap: Brick red to chocolate brown, lighter towards the margin, convex to umbonate, with a fibrillose to squamulose cap. Usually less than 4 cm across and has incurved margin until very mature.
- Gills: adnate and very numerous, pale cream brown to yellowish tan.
- Spores: Smooth and ellipsoid to oval, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 micrometres, ochre to tan brown.
- Stipe: 2.5–6 cm long, 4 to 6 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base.
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See also
References
- Kühner R. (1955). "Compléments a la "Flore analytique" V. Inocybes léiosporés cystidiés. Espèces nouvelles ou critiques". Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes d'Oyonnax (in French). 9 (Suppl.): 3–95 (see p. 6).
- Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
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