#coprinellus

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[orofeaiel]

Coprinellus Mushrooms

[oliviarosaline]

Mica Cap Mushrooms

Coprinellus sect. Micacei

Growing at the base of an old cottonwood tree in the woods.

April 3rd, 2024

St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[balthazarslostlibrary]

Velvet foot, Flammulina velutipes, Aotearoa. Photo credit me.

Also some Coprinellus

[memoriesofthepark]

Firerug inkcaps 》 Coprinellus domesticus

Deliquescing inkcaps. It was beautiful this morning.

Southeast Texas, 6 Sept. 2024

[prettypretender]

𝔉𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔶 𝔦𝔫𝔨𝔠𝔞𝔭

[mushroomgay]

Cambridge, UK, April 2023

Glistening inkcaps (Coprinellus micaceus)

These gorgeous little fungi grow in huge groups - you can’t see it here, but I’ve seen them cover the base of trees in groups half a metre across, comprised of hundreds of these tiny caps. 

They start as pale brown caps, as you can see in the first photos, and turn grey-brown as they age. Though they are in the inkcap family, they don’t turn to ink as they mature like many of their relatives do, instead simply darkening and shriveling away as they release their spores. 

Fairy inkcaps (Coprinellus disseminatus) are similar, but glistening inkcaps appear earlier in the year, start off brown rather than beige when young, and have tiny granules on the caps that fairy inkcaps lack.

[aldercaps]

found myself in the ink cap kingdom on my walk home yesterday