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Lilac Fibrecap
A small purple to lilac fibercap whose cap centre stays dark purple as it matures, with a strongly spermatic odor and a brown spore print. It was long treated as a lilac variety of the European white fibercap, Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina. Matheny & Swenie (2018) sequenced Peck's holotype and restricted the name to an eastern United States species; many lilac fibercaps formerly given this name are other species, chiefly I. pallidicremea.
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Poisonous; do not eat. Like other Inocybe species it contains muscarine (Minnesota Seasons), which causes sweating, salivation, tearing, blurred vision and gastrointestinal upset, and can be severe. Do not confuse with the edible amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethystina), which has thick, waxy, widely spaced purple gills and a white spore print; small purple Cortinarius species have rusty-brown spores.
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