12/Jul/2026, 8:16 AM
Tivoli elurajoon, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban buildings near coastline, Oaks park, calcareous roadside verge, in mawned lawn
59°26'31.8"N 24°47'01.2"E
🌡️ 21°C 🌤️ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postAgrocybe molesta
bearded fieldcap
- Scientific identification
- Agrocybe molesta (Lasch) Singer
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Agrocybe
Names across languages
- English: bearded fieldcap
- German: Rissiger Ackerling
- Finnish: Valkopiennarsieni
- Estonian: Mõrand-põldseen
- Russian: Агроцибе неприятная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-07-12.
Hymenium
Gills close to crowded, whitish at first, becoming dull greyish-brown to clay-brown as spores mature
Cap
Convex when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat; whitish, cream to dull yellowish, slightly tacky when fresh but soon dry; often cracking with age and retaining pale veil fragments around the margin
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to adnexed
Stipe
Rigid, cylindrical, whitish, sometimes browning toward the base; with a thin, fragile and often short-lived whitish ring
Spore print
Spore print: Brown
Ecology
Saprobic in lawns, meadows, fields, grassy roadside verges and gardens; solitary, scattered, gregarious or occasionally in fairy rings; late spring to summer
Edibility
Reported as edible after thorough cooking but bitter and of poor quality
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~5–10 cm long, ~0.3–1.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~2.5–8 cm
Flesh
Flesh white, firm, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH negative to yellowish on the cap surface
Odour
Indistinct to slightly mealy
Taste
Indistinct, mealy to somewhat bitter
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, 11–16(–19) × 6–9(–10) µm, with a conspicuous germ pore; basidia clavate, 4-sterigmate; cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia broadly utriform to clavate
Overview
Pale grassland fieldcap with a frequently cracked cap and fringed veil remnants
1978). Sydowia 30(1-6): 197 (’1977′).
Field encounters
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