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Deadly fibrecap

Inocybe erubescens · Fibrecaps (Inocybe)

Deadly poisonous
Deadly fibrecap
📷 Andreas Kunze, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Very poisonous; deaths are known. Contains a lot of muscarine.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Conical, radially split cap
  2. Turns brick red where pressed
  3. Brown gills – St George's mushroom stays white and smells strongly of meal

Features

Cap
3–8 cm, whitish and conical when young, radially fibrous and splitting at the margin; turns brick red when damaged and with age.
Underside
Gills: whitish when young, then olive brown, reddening.
Stem
White, reddening, without a ring.
Flesh
White, slowly reddens.
Smell
Fruity to unpleasant
Spore print
Brown

Season

Habitat

Broadleaf forests, parks and avenues on chalky soil, especially under beech and lime – in early summer, at the same time as St George's mushroom.

Bøk, andre treslag

Risk of confusion

Mai-rødhatt Edible species St George's mushroom grows at the same time but stays white, does not redden, has whitish gills and smells strongly of meal.

If someone has eaten it

Sweating, salivation, tears, narrowed pupils, nausea, diarrhoea, slow pulse and shortness of breath. First symptoms: usually 15 minutes to 2 hours after eating.

Act immediately – even without symptoms:

  • Emergency number 112 if someone feels unwell.
  • Poison centre: Germany – area code of the nearest city with a poison centre + 19240 (e.g. Berlin 030 19240, Munich 089 19240) · Austria +43 1 406 43 43 · Switzerland 145.
  • Keep leftovers, trimmings or vomit – it helps with identification.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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