15/Sep/2026, 2:45 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, within oaks, in grassland forming large fairy ring
59°26'26.5"N 24°47'46.9"E
🌡️ 16°C ☀️ Sunny 💨 Wind 230° SW->NE, 13 km/h
Original Instagram postInfundibulicybe geotropa
Trooping Funnel
- Scientific identification
- Infundibulicybe geotropa (Bull.) Harmaja
- Family
- Tricholomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Infundibulicybe
Names across languages
- English: Trooping Funnel
- German: Mönchskopf
- Finnish: Isomalikka
- Estonian: Sirge lehtrik
- Russian: Инфудибулицибе подогнутая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-15.
Hymenium
Gills crowded, broad; whitish to cream when young, pale buff to yellowish with age
Cap
Convex when young with a prominent central umbo, then flat to deeply funnel-shaped; smooth to finely felted; cream, buff, pale ochre to tan; margin strongly inrolled when young, then wavy
Hymenium Attachment
Strongly decurrent
Stipe
Tall, robust, solid to spongy with age, cylindrical to distinctly enlarged toward base; whitish to pale buff, finely fibrillose; white basal mycelium; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Description
Saprobic in leaf and needle litter, humus and grassy woodland soils; woodland edges, parks and grasslands; often in large troops, arcs or impressive fairy rings; late summer to late autumn
Stipe
Good edible when young; stipe too fibrous and tough
Fruit body
Fruit body large; stipe ~6–20 cm long and ~1.3–3 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~5–20(–25) cm
Flesh
White, thick, firm and slightly elastic, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
Guaiac slowly dark blue-green on flesh
Odour
Pleasant, sweet-aromatic to bitter-almond-like
Taste
Mild, slightly sweetish
Microscopy
Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid or sublacrymoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~6–9.5 × 5–7 µm; basidia 4-spored; cystidia absent; pileipellis a cutis; clamp connections present
Overview
Large pale funnel with a central umbo, tall stout stipe and strongly decurrent gills
2003). Ann. Bot. Fenn. 40(3): 216.
Field encounters
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