🇬🇧 common ink cap - 🇩🇪 Falten-Tintling - 🇪🇪 Voldiline tindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник серый 9/24/09—10/10/25
🆔 Coprinopsis atramentaria (Bull.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, free and very crowded; white when young, turning gray, then black and liquefying
ℹ️ Cap: Starts egg-shaped or bell-shaped, then becomes convex or flat; smooth; gray to gray-brown; margin often splits before deliquescing
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Free
ℹ️ Stipe: Slender, hollow, smooth or slightly fibrous; whitish above, darker or grayer below; no persistent ring (veil is ephemeral)
🟤 Spore print very dark brown to black
🪵🍂☘️ Saprobic, on buried or decayed wood, root systems, stumps, or mixed with soil in lawns, gardens, and disturbed sites, spring through autumn
🍴🍸 Edible when young, poisonous with alcohol (coprine, causing a disulfiram-like reaction)
📏 Fruit body medium, stipe ~8–15 cm length, 0.6–2 cm thick
📐 Cap diameter ~3–10 cm
✒️ Inky deliquescence tied to autolysis of gills
🔪 Flesh no staining when cut
🧪 No strong reaction
👃 Indistinct
👅 Mild
🔬 Spores ellipsoid to almond-shaped, smooth, ~7.5–11×4.5–6 μm, with a distinct apical germ pore, 4-spored basidia
🔤 Classic inky mushroom whose gills dissolve to black ink. The bell-shaped grayish cap, free gills that deliquesce, hollow stipe, and black spore print
🇬🇧 common ink cap - 🇩🇪 Falten-Tintling - 🇪🇪 Voldiline tindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник серый