Today’s #funguary fungi faerie is Coprinopsis picacea or Magpie Inkcap 🖤🤍🖤 I really like this one #fungi #fungifaerie #fungifaeries #coprinopsispicacea #magpieinkcap https://www.instagram.com/p/CoNHjLIOM8o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Found this amazing mushroom! But can I eat it? Learn more about our online herbalism courses in jointheflow.net Discover my books on bodywork and more: amzn.to/3xhaNey Recently I have been reading a lot about mushrooms. I am quite new to this field, and am more familiar with the properties of medicinal mushrooms, than their identification techniques. Coprinopsis picacea is a species of fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. It is commonly called magpie inkcap fungus. It was first described in 1785 by French mycologist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1785 as Agaricus picaceus. The magpie inkcap is common in Europe and Australia. In Europe, the area extends from Great Britain and France in the west to Poland, Hungary and Romania in the east and south to Spain and the Balearic Islands , Italy and Greece and to Germany and Denmark in the north. The cap is initially egg-shaped, reaching a width of 7 cm. Later it opens up and takes on a bell shape that is up to 8 cm wide.  The cap is serrated and colored white on very young mushrooms. It breaks open with increasing age, so that the beige to dark brown background emerges. Remnants of the white, grayish to cream-colored velum remain on the cap as flakes, giving the impression of woodpecker or magpie plumage. With age, the brim of the cap rolls up and dissolves.  The lamellae are very close and are initially greyish-white, then pink to gray in color. Eventually they melt, dripping and black, giving it the name inkcap.  The stalk is whitish and 12–20 (–30) cm long and 6–15 mm thick. It is hollow and not very stable, slightly tapered towards the top and covered with scales or fine fibers that form a snake towards the base. The flesh is whitish with a fibrous, watery consistency and sometimes has an unpleasant smell of moth powder. The taste is also unpleasant. The species is inedible and causes digestive upset.So, it is not edible. Photo taken by me, all rights reserved. Text credit: Wikipedia. #herbaleducation #mushroom #coprinopsis #poisonousmushrooms #inediblemushrooms #wildmushroom #wildmushrooms  #Coprinopsispicacea #hikinggreece #medicinalplants #eatweeds #wildfoodlove #wildfood #myherbalstudies (at Penteli) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXdPcKPIc4q/?utm_medium=tumblr

Magpie Inkcap - A glistening Magpie Inkcap mushroom growing from the woodland floor, in Brampton Wood on day 27 of Wild October. https://flic.kr/p/2hBfa5M