| Inocybe tricolor | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Inocybaceae |
| Genus: | Inocybe |
| Species: | I. tricolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Inocybe tricolor | |
| Synonyms | |
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Inocybe tricolor | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is flat or umbonate |
 | Hymenium is adnate |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is tan to yellow |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is psychoactive |
Inocybe tricolor is a rare member of the genus Inocybe that is widely distributed in temperate forests. It is a small mycorrhizal mushroom that contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. Inocybe tricolor is found under Norway spruce in central Europe.
Description[edit]
- Cap: Brick red to chocolate brown, lighter towards the margin, convex to umbonate, with a fibrillose to squamulose cap. Usually less than 4 cm across and has incurved margin until very mature.
- Gills: adnate and very numerous, pale cream brown to yellowish tan.
- Spores: Smooth and ellipsoid to oval, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 micrometres, ochre to tan brown.
- Stipe: 2.5–6 cm long, 4 to 6 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Kühner R. (1955). "Compléments a la "Flore analytique" V. Inocybes léiosporés cystidiés. Espèces nouvelles ou critiques". Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes d'Oyonnax (in French). 9 (Suppl): 3–95 (see p. 6).
- Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.