Lepiota cristata

Lepiota cristata, most known as Stinking dapperling from the Agaricaceae family, can be easily recognize by its small size, its fragrant odour and the brownish scales on the cape. Moreover, this name refers to the unpleasant smell of coal gas from this mushroom. If often grows in disturbed grounds (ditches for instance). Lepiota cristata can not be use for human's food because it is poisoning but it does not contain amatoxins or phalotoxins: The spores have very distinctive shapes, like an oval shape, and are single walled.

Posted on October 7, 2021 01:49 AM by evasavard5