11/Oct/2025, 2:50 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, under oaks, in grassy soil
59°26'21.8"N 24°47'40.3"E
🌡️ 12°C 🌤️ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 310° NW->SE, 26 km/h
Original Instagram postInocybe lilacina
lilac fibrecap
- Scientific identification
- Inocybe lilacina (Peck) Kauffman
- Family
- Inocybaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Inocybe
Names across languages
- English: lilac fibrecap
- German: Lilaseidiger Risspilz
- Finnish: Liilarisakas
- Estonian: Lilla-narmasnutt
- Russian: Волоконница лиловая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-11.
Hymenium
Gills, crowded, initially pale then turning snuff-brown with age; edges whitish and often exhibiting a delicate cortina in youth
Cap
convex to broadly convex with a persistent central bump; surface silky, somewhat sticky when fresh, then dry; often lilac in center fading toward margins
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly notched (adnexed)
Stipe
subequal or slightly swollen at base; surface silky, whitish above, lilac below, becoming hollow; basal mycelium white
Spore print
Spore print snuff-brown
Ecology
Ectomycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers, singly/in small groups in forested or woodland habitats, summer–autumn
Edibility
Toxic (muscarine)
Fruit body
Small, stipe 2–4 cm long, 2–4 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap 1–3 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh whitish, fragile, no staining
Chemical reactions
Spores yellow-brown in KOH
Odour
Strongly spermatic
Taste
Not safe
Microscopy
Spores smooth, elliptic to subamygdaliform, ~10–12×4–5 µm; basidia ~20–23×5–7 µm, clavate, 4-sterigmate, cheilocystidia/pleurocystidia 40–65 × 10–15 µm lageniform
Overview
Inocybe lilacina is a small, slender, lilac-tinged mycorrhizal fibrecap
1797). Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. (Lipsiae): 62.
Field encounters
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