| Lepiota castanea |
| Spores fusiform, spurred; 8.7– 11.1 × 4.3–4.8 microns. |
| Growing from soil under pine; late summer. White spore print. Lepiota castanea is extremely poisonous, containing the same toxins (amatoxin) as the deadly Amanita mushrooms, such as the death cap and the destroying angel. |
| “Lepiota castanea Quélet CAP 1–3 cm wide, acutely conical becoming bell shaped and finally depressed; disc raised, velvety or with fibrous scales, cinnamon brown; margin incurved often becoming undulated and uplifted, at first with membrane hanging from the margin, colored like the disc, with fibrous scales; flesh white, often becoming rusty in age or when bruised. GILLS free, white or buff, often becoming rusty in age or when bruised, close, edges even, in one to three tiers, often not reaching the margin. STALK 2.8– 6.5 cm long, top 1–3 mm thick; wider at the base; stuffed becoming hollow; above fibrous, white; below with scattered fibrous or woolly cinnamon brown scales; white with an orange wash at the base and sometimes between the scales; becoming rusty when bruised. RING not persistent. ODOR sweet, unpleasant, or not remarkable. TASTE not remarkable. HABIT scattered or solitary. HABITAT humus under conifer. EDIBILITY potentially lethal–has amanitins.” Richard E. Sieger, Puget Sound Mycological Society copyright © January 17, 2007 Trial Key to Pacific Northwest Lepiota and Allies |