11/Sep/2026, 4:05 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, near linden and horse chestnut trees, in mowed lawn
59°26'22.7"N 24°47'19.3"E
🌡️ 16°C 🌤️ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 280° W->E, 37 km/h
Original Instagram postLepiota cristata
Stinking Dapperling
- Scientific identification
- Lepiota cristata (Bolton) P. Kumm.
- Family
- Agaricaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Lepiota
Names across languages
- English: Stinking Dapperling
- German: Stink-Schirmling
- Finnish: Puistoukonsieni
- Estonian: Haisev harisirmik
- Russian: Лепиота гребенчатая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-11.
Hymenium
Gills crowded; white to cream, becoming slightly buff with age; numerous shorter lamellulae
Cap
Ovoid to convex when young, later broadly bell-shaped to flat; whitish background covered with concentrically arranged reddish-brown scales; centre darker and usually smooth
Hymenium Attachment
Free
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, whitish, often becoming pinkish-brown toward base; smooth to finely fibrillose; fragile white ring usually ephemeral and easily lost
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic in woodland, parks, gardens, lawns, paths and disturbed ground; solitary, scattered or gregariously; summer to autumn
Edibility
Poisonous, toxic
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~3–7 cm long and ~0.2–0.4 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~2–6 cm
Flesh
Whitish, thin, fragile, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH negative on pale cap areas, negative to yellowish on brown scales
Odour
Rubbery to coal-gas-like
Taste
Mild
Microscopy
Spores bullet-shaped to wedge-shaped, smooth, hyaline, dextrinoid, ~5–8 × 2.5–4(–5) µm; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia clavate to subclavate; pleurocystidia absent; pileipellis hymeniform; clamp connections present
Overview
Small brown-scaled dapperling with a fleeting ring and strong rubbery odour
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 137.
Field encounters
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