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Conifer Webcap
A small, tawny, umbonate webcap of mossy conifer forests, with a long, rooting stem marked by yellow veil remnants. Its toxicity has been argued over for decades. It was once reported to contain orellanine, but later testing did not confirm this.
Poisonous; treat as dangerous and never eat. Older Finnish literature called it poisonous, and David Arora (Mushrooms Demystified, 1986) called it deadly. Later work weakened the orellanine link: a specimen from the original 1975 toxicity study turned out to be the deadly C. rubellus (as C. speciosissimus), and a 2003 Finnish study of 28 samples found no toxicity in cell-culture and mouse-feeding tests. Full safety details in notes.
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