🇺🇸 shaggy ink cap - 🇩🇪 Schopf-Tintling - 🇪🇪 Soomustindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник белый 8/13/09—10/10/25
🆔 Coprinus comatus (O.F.Müll.) Pers.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, free and extremely crowded; start white, then turn pinkish with maturing spores, then rapidly become black and undergo deliquescence
ℹ️ Cap: Initially cylindrical or egg-shaped, later bell-shaped to broadly conical, surface white, shaggy with fibrous scales, becoming smooth near the top
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Free
ℹ️ Stipe: Tall, hollow, smooth; white to creamy; bears a movable ring (veil remnant) that may slip with spore drop
⚫ Spore print very dark black-brown
🍂☘️ Saprobic, growing on soil, lawns, roadsides, compost, grassy patches, in disturbed locations, late spring through autumn
🍽️ Choice edible when young (before deliquescence), shortly after harvesting
📏 Fruit body medium, stipe length ~10–25 cm, 1–2 cm thick
📐 Cap ~ 3–7 cm diameter
🔪 Flesh white, firm, no staining
✒️ Deliquescence of gills into black ink
🧪 No reagent reactions
👃 Spicy, subtle mushroomy
👅 Mild, unobtrusive
🔬 Spores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, ~10–13×6.5–8 µm, with germ pore, pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia present
🔤 Recognizable inky-cap mushroom with white shaggy fibrous scales cylinder and gills that turn into ink
🇺🇸 shaggy ink cap - 🇩🇪 Schopf-Tintling - 🇪🇪 Soomustindik - 🇷🇺 Навозник белый