White Fibrecap - Inocybe geophylla
Cap 1.5 to 3.5 cm across, conical, soon expanding, with prominent umbo, smooth and silky, with yellowish tinge. Though usually white, there is a lilac form var. lilacina that often grows together with the white form. The gills are adnexed, crowded, creamy coloured at first, darkening to clay.
Grows on the ground usually in mixed woodland but sometimes on mossy lawns.
Summer to late autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
David Nicholls
Owston Wood
30 October 2024
David Nicholls
Brocks Hill Country Park
25 September 2019
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
06 November 2022
young cap and stipe lilac
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Species profile
- Common names
- White Fibrecap
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Inocybaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 07/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 30/10/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Owston Wood
30 October 2024
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
06 November 2022
mature cap retained umbo
Jane Hollingworth
Memorial Garden Quorn
24 October 2019
Lilac Fibre Cap
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
06 November 2022
browning gills
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
06 November 2022
