The Deadly Fibrecap is a very poisonous mushroom containing a lethal concentration of the toxin muscarine. This Summer season mushroom is notorious for staining bright red in all parts and it was once known as the Red Staining Inocybe. Flesh: white not changing colour when cut, but later slowly reddening. It can often be found already stained red where eaten by slugs. Spore Print: Dull brown. Taste / Smell: The smell is strong and pungent but hard to describe. It is sometimes compared to honey, fruit or perfumed soap. The flesh is said to taste sweet but we don’t recommend tasting this mushroom due to its toxicity.
Ivory white or cream staining bright red or pinkish orange with age. Initially conical or bell shaped, then becoming flat with an umbo. With fine fibres that radiate from the center and often splitting at the edge of the cap.
White not changing colour when cut, but later slowly reddening. It can often be found already stained red where eaten by slugs.
Starting with a cream colour and becoming pale cigar brown with age. Slowly staining red where bruised. Crowded and attached to stem.
Dull brown.
White and slowly staining vivid red where touched or bruised. Stout and fibrous. The base is either not bulbous at all or only very slightly swollen.
