inky cap
common ink cap

Member of inky cap family, which means it turns black and dissolves when mature.

Other common names include common ink cap and inky cap.

Inky Cap fungi appear, large increases in moths, many birds migrate.

(The black ink-like liquid this would create gave these species their common name "inky cap".)

Copsin is an antimicrobial polypeptide secreted from the inky cap mushroom, first reported at the end of 2014.

Coprinopsis atramentaria, the common inkcap, inky cap, or tippler's bane.

Mr. Lincoff identified them, from a photograph Ms. Press had sent in, as inky caps.

The mushroom is commonly known as the "scaly ink cap" or the "feltscale inky cap".

Coprinus comatus Deliquescent agaric (typical inky cap), initially with very elongated cap with uplifted scales.

Coprinopsis atramentaria, commonly known as the common ink cap or inky cap, is an edible (but sometimes poisonous, see below) mushroom found in Europe and North America.

Coprinus - Technical keys and taxonomic resources on inky cap mushrooms (Coprinus species) are provided through this web page, which also includes a downloadable mushroom identification program.

The mushroom is commonly known as the "shiny cap", the "mica cap" or the "glistening inky cap", all in reference to the mealy particles found on the cap that glisten like mica.

In young specimens, the entire cap surface is coated with a fine layer of reflective mica-like cells that provide the inspiration for both the mushroom's species name and the common names mica cap, shiny cap, and glistening inky cap.

In October 2014, a collaboration of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland and the University of Bonn, Germany reported online, that they had identified a new antimicrobial peptide, excreted from the inky cap mushroom (Coprinopsis cinereacopsin) grown on horse dung.

One 1987 field guide to North American species warns against consumption, calling it "not recommended", a conclusion shared in a 2006 field guide to Pennsylvanian and mid-Atlantic mushrooms, but not before describing it as "the best of the inky caps, with a richer flavor and better texture than the famous shaggy mane".

Other common names include common ink cap and inky cap.

Common Ink Cap (Coprinopsis atramentaria)

It occurs naturally in the otherwise edible common ink cap mushroom (Coprinopsis atramentaria), hence its colloquial name "tippler's bane".

Suillellus luridus has been suspected of causing an enhanced alcohol sensitivity similar to that caused by the common ink cap (Coprinopsis atramentaria), with gastric symptoms.

Coprinopsis atramentaria, commonly known as the common ink cap or inky cap, is an edible (but sometimes poisonous, see below) mushroom found in Europe and North America.

An Ink Cap grows by an old log. This is probably Common Ink Cap, Coprinus atramentarius, from which Antabuse, a drug used for treating alcoholics, is derived.

The common ink cap was first described by French naturalist Pierre Bulliard in 1786 as Agaricus atramentarius before being placed in the large genus Coprinus in 1838 by Elias Magnus Fries.