Welcome to Mushroom World
Step into the fascinating world of mushrooms with Mushroom World – your go-to resource for fungi information. Our site offers clear information and beautiful images of mushrooms.
If you're curious about what fungi actually are and how they differ from plants and animals, be sure to visit our what are fungi? page for an easy-to-understand explanation.
Since there are thousands of known species of mushrooms, we have limited our database to the most common ones. New species are also continuously added to the site.
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Today's Mushroom
A quick highlight from our database
Today's mushroom is Coprinopsis atramentaria (Common Ink Cap). It grows in North America, Europe.
Dimensions: Cap 3-7 cm tall * variable diameter, stem 7-14 cm tall * 1-1.5 cm thick
Description:
Coprinopsis atramentaria, is commonly known as the common ink cap, inky cap or alcohol inky cap. It is a medium-sized conical agaric, that is greyish-brownish, later blackening and dissolves itself in a black ink-like liquid at maturity. It grows generally in tufts, in fields, gardens and waste ground, near broad-leaf tree stumps or buried wood.
Cap egg-shaped when young, expanding to become conical-convex with age. The colour is grey to grey-brown. The flesh is white in young specimens but soon discolours and deliquesces slowly from the margin, fairly thin in relation to size and fragile. Gills attached to the stem or free from it, crowded, whitish, becoming black. Stem white and smooth, with fine reddish-brown fibrils at the base and hollow inside. Spore print black.
Microscopic Features: The spores are smooth and have an ellipsoidal to almond-shaped appearance. They measure 7.5-11 x 4.5-6μm and have an apical germ pore.
Coprinopsis atramentaria on the First Nature Web site.
Coprinopsis atramentaria on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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