Hare's foot Inkcap
From the latest record: 2026-10-11.
Gills crowded; white when young, becoming faintly reddish-grey, then grey-black
Ovoid when young, later conical, bell-shaped to flattened with upturned margin; grey-brown to dark grey; densely covered in ephemeral silvery-white woolly hairs when young, becoming smooth; strongly striate
Adnexed to free
Slender, hollow and very fragile; white, initially covered with ephemeral white hairs, becoming smooth; ring absent
Spore print violaceous-black to black
Saprobic on humus-rich soil, leaf litter, decaying woody debris and woodchip mulch; solitary to densely gregarious; forests, woodland tracks and disturbed habitats; spring to late autumn
Inedible; extremely fragile and insubstantial
Fruit body small; stipe ~4–10 cm long and ~0.3–0.6 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~1–3(–4) cm
Whitish to greyish, extremely thin and fragile, rapidly collapsing as the gills deliquesce
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Indistinct
Indistinct
Spores ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, dark, non-amyloid, ~10–14 × 6–8.5 µm, with acentral germ pore; basidia 4-spored with brachybasidia; pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia large
Woolly young inkcap rapidly transforming into a black deliquescent bowl
2001). In Redhead, Vilgalys, Moncalvo, Johnson & Hopple, Taxon 50(1): 229.
Kalmuse tee, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Mixed forest (pine-mapple-elm-rowan), woodland track, in soil, within wood and leaves organic remains
59°27'59.4"N 24°50'49.7"E
🌡️ 11°C ☁️ Overcast 💨 Wind 120° ESE->WNW, 13 km/h
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