Inocybe tricolor

Inocybe tricolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Inocybaceae
Genus:	Inocybe
Species:	I. tricolor
Binomial name
Inocybe tricolor Kühner (1955)
Synonyms
Inocybe corydalina var. tricolor (Kühner) Krieglst. (1991)

Inocybe tricolor View the Mycomorphbox template that generates the following list Mycological characteristics
File:Gills icon.png	Gills on hymenium
File:Flat cap icon.svg File:Umbonate cap icon.svg	Cap is flat or umbonate
File:Adnate gills icon2.svg	Hymenium is adnate
File:Bare stipe icon.svg	Stipe is bare
File:Transparent spore print icon.svg File:Transparent spore print icon.svg	Spore print is tan to yellow
File:Mycorrhizal fungus.svg	Ecology is mycorrhizal
File:Mycomorphbox Psychoactive.png	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

• 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

• List of Inocybe species

References

• Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.

External links

• Inocybe tricolor picture
• Inocybe tricolor picture