17/Sep/2026, 5:08 PM
Raudoja veehoidla, Raudoja, Harju, Eesti
Conifer dominant forest, within young spruces, deep in wet moss (Hylocomium splendens)
59°22'44.3"N 25°29'16.2"E
🌡️ 14°C ⛅ Partly sunny 💨 Wind 260° W->E, 15 km/h
Original Instagram postCortinarius sanguineus
Bloodred Webcap
- Scientific identification
- Cortinarius sanguineus (Wulfen) Gray
- Family
- Cortinariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Cortinarius
Names across languages
- English: Bloodred Webcap
- German: Blutroter Hautkopf
- Finnish: Veriseitikki
- Estonian: Verev vöödik
- Russian: Паутинник кроваво-красный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-17.
Hymenium
Gills moderately spaced; bright carmine to blood-red when young, becoming rusty red-brown with maturity
Cap
Convex to broadly convex, later plane, often with a broad umbo; hygrophanous, finely silky-fibrillose; rich blood-red, dark red to dull reddish-brown
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, blood-red to dark red; orange-yellow to reddish-yellow basal mycelium; cortina red and ephemeral; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print rusty brown
Ecology
Mycorrhizal mainly with spruce; mesic to damp mossy coniferous forests, often among Sphagnum and bilberry on nutrient-rich ground; scattered or gregariously; late summer to autumn
Edibility
Not recommended; considered inedible
Uses & compounds
Anthraquinone pigments including emodin, dermocybin, dermolutein and dermorubin
Description
Dye fungus, yields red and reddish-brown shades
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~3–8.5 cm long and ~0.3–0.7 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~2.5–5 cm
Flesh
Dark red to blood-red, with orange tints toward the stipe base; unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH distinctly aniline-red on cap surface
Odour
Cedar-like, especially in the gills
Microscopy
Spores amygdaloid to ellipsoid, moderately verrucose, weakly dextrinoid, ~5.6–7.3 × 3.1–4.6 µm; basidia 4-spored; pileipellis hyphae lacking or with only slight encrustation; clamp connections present
Overview
Blood-red spruce webcap with carmine gills and rusty spores
1821). Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 629.
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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