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The cap surface is sticky when wet and easily peeled—a troublesome feature, as that is allegedly a feature of edible fungi. [31] The remains of the partial veil are seen as a skirtlike, floppy annulus usually about 1 to 1.5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 to 5 ⁄ 8 in) below the cap. The crowded white lamellae (gills) are free.
This species has gills that are white to pale yellow, a white spore print, and spores that are elliptical, smooth, and measure 6.5–9 by 2.5–4 μm. [25] A rough resemblance has also been noted with the edible Hypholoma capnoides , [ 13 ] the 'magic' mushroom Psilocybe subaeruginosa , as well as Conocybe filaris , another poisonous amatoxin ...
"The mushrooms are the reproductive structure of a fungus that grows underground," Anne Pringle, a mycologist and expert on death cap mushrooms at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, tells ...
The cap changes from globose to hemispherical, and finally to plate-like and flat in mature specimens. [28] Fully grown, the bright red cap is usually around 8–20 centimetres (3–8 inches) in diameter, although larger specimens have been found. The red colour may fade after rain and in older mushrooms. The free gills are white, as is the ...
Measuring 3–10 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 3 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter, the greyish or brownish-grey cap [5] is initially bell-shaped, is furrowed, and later splits. The colour is more brownish in the centre of the cap, which later flattens before melting. The very crowded gills are free; they are whitish at first but rapidly turn black and ...
It has a prominent boss and looks small in relation to the large stem in young specimens. As the mushroom ages, the cap changes from convex with inrolled margins to more funnel shaped. The decurrent gills are the same colour as the cap. The stipe is bulbous, larger at the base and 10–20 cm (4–8 in) high. The spore print is white.
The fruiting body is shaped like a funnel expanded at the top, the stalk seamless with the cap, which is 0.5–7 centimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) in diameter. They grow up to about 10 cm (4 in) in height, [2] [3] [4] exceptionally 15 cm (6 in). [5] [6] The upper and inner surface is black or dark grey, and rarely yellow. [4]
The gills beneath the cap are white, then pink, then turn black and deliquesce ('melt') into a black liquid filled with spores (hence the "ink cap" name). [3] This mushroom is unusual because it will turn black and dissolve itself in a matter of hours after being picked or depositing spores. When young it is an excellent edible mushroom ...