10/Oct/2025, 3:56 PM
Liivaoja tn., Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban zone, moved grass field, in soil
59°26'27.8"N 24°47'06.0"E
🌡️ 12°C 🌤️ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 320° NW->SE, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postCoprinus comatus
shaggy ink cap
- Scientific identification
- Coprinus comatus (O.F.Müll.) Pers.
- Family
- Agaricaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Coprinus
Names across languages
- English: shaggy ink cap
- German: Schopf-Tintling
- Finnish: Suomumustesieni
- Estonian: Soomustindik
- Russian: Навозник белый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-10.
Hymenium
Gills, free and extremely crowded; start white, then turn pinkish with maturing spores, then rapidly become black and undergo deliquescence
Cap
Initially cylindrical or egg-shaped, later bell-shaped to broadly conical, surface white, shaggy with fibrous scales, becoming smooth near the top
Hymenium Attachment
Free
Stipe
Tall, hollow, smooth; white to creamy; bears a movable ring (veil remnant) that may slip with spore drop
Spore print
Spore print very dark black-brown
Ecology
Saprobic, growing on soil, lawns, roadsides, compost, grassy patches, in disturbed locations, late spring through autumn
Edibility
Choice edible when young (before deliquescence), shortly after harvesting
Fruit body
Fruit body medium, stipe length ~10–25 cm, 1–2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ~ 3–7 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh white, firm, no staining
Description
Deliquescence of gills into black ink
Chemical reactions
No reagent reactions
Odour
Spicy, subtle mushroomy
Taste
Mild, unobtrusive
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, ~10–13×6.5–8 µm, with germ pore, pleurocystidia absent, cheilocystidia present
Overview
Recognizable inky-cap mushroom with white shaggy fibrous scales cylinder and gills that turn into ink
1797). Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. (Lipsiae): 62.
Field encounters
06/Sep/24, 6:21 PM
Liivaoja tn., Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Urban zone, mowed grassfield
59°26'27.1"N 24°47'06.9"E
🔆 Evening sun, partial shade
Original Instagram post20/07/23, 4:54 PM
Liivaoja, Kadriorg, Tallinn
In grass lawn patch, partially open space
🔆 Open space with evening sun overcast
Original Instagram postSource hashtags
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