Glistening inkcap
Coprinellus micaceus · 晶粒小鬼伞
Common小脆柄菇科❓ Edibility Unknown
Edibility is unknown and should be treated as poisonous.
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 orange-yellow, bell-shaped, with glistening mica-like granules
- Densely clustered near stumps and buried wood
- Cap margin deliquesces black at maturity
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 小脆柄菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 1–4 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Base of stumps, often in large clumps
Easily Confused With
Common inkcapGlistening inkcap is smaller and tawny-orange, with a cap dusted in glittering granules.
Pale brittlestemCap small, thin, off-white to pale yellowish brown
Deadly conecapGlistening inkcap has a cap dusted with glittering granules, dissolves when mature and has no ring; deadly conecap has a ring and doesn't dissolve.Fun Fact
A young cap is dusted with mica-like glittering flecks, leftover remnants of its veil — one good rain washes them away.