Deadly webcap
Cortinarius rubellus · 细鳞丝膜菌
Rare丝膜菌科☠️ Deadly Poisonous
Reference sources describe this as highly toxic, with recorded fatalities.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap reddish brown to orange-brown, conical, finely fibrous
- Stem yellowish brown, banded with pale yellow cortina remnants
- Gills rusty brown; grows in mossy conifer forest
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 丝膜菌科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 3–8 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Rare
- Habitat
- Conifer woods and sphagnum bogs
Easily Confused With
Gypsy mushroomGypsy mushroom has a frosted-looking cap and a membranous ring; deadly webcap is red-brown and conical, with only a cobweb-like trace.
Spectacular rustgillCap large, orange-yellow to rusty orange, clustered on stumps and tree basesFun Fact
It contains orellanine, a toxin that targets the kidneys, with a latency period stretching two to three weeks — by the time symptoms appear, no one remembers eating any mushroom at all.