Liberty Cap
(Magic Mushroom)
Description
Cap conical with acute umbo, Ø 5-15 mm, 6-13 mm high, sticky, olive-brown to grey-brown, straw-yellow to ochre when dry, with incurved margin when young.
Gills pale brown-grey to purple-brown.
Stem 5-9 cm x 1-2 mm, whitish to cream, occasionally tinged blue-green at the base. Flesh grey-brown to beige. Taste mild. Smell of radish.
Poisonous.
Occurrence
Fairly common on the ground and on grass debris in fairly poor to manured grasslands.
Saprophyte.