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Inocybe aeruginascens is a small mycorrhizal mushroom with a conic to convex cap which becomes plane in age and is often fibrillose near the margin. It is usually less than 5 cm across, has a slightly darker blunt umbo and an incurved margin when young.

The cap color varies from buff to light yellow brown, usually with greenish stains which disappear when the mushroom dries. The gills are adnate to nearly free, numerous, colored pale brown, grayish brown, or tobacco brown.

The fruit body has greenish tones and bruises blue where damaged. The spores are smooth and ellipsoid, measuring 6–9.5 x 4.5 micrometres and forming a clay brown spore print. The stem is 2–7 cm long, 3 to 8 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base.

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It is solid, pale grey, becoming bluish green from the bottom up. The stem is fibrous and appears to be covered with fine powder near the top. It has a partial veil which often disappears in age and an unpleasant soapy odor.

The mushroom species was first found by J. Ferencz in Osca, Hungary, on June 15, 1965. That same year, as well as on several occasions later on, Hungarian mycologists found large numbers of mushrooms growing in different locations mainly in plantations of Populus around Budapest (Babos, 1968; Bohus et al., 1977; Gartz et al., 1986; Gartz, 1995).

In 1975, the Inocybe species was collected in Eastern Berlin for the first time. But a careful analysis of material from herbarium has shown that the mushrooms were already found in this area some years ago. So it is unclear if the species comes originally from Hungary or from other parts of Europe. During the 1980s Inocybe aeruginascens could be found in abundance at countless new locations around Berlin and Budapest. Finally, a few fruiting bodies each were also collected in Holland (1980), the Rhone Valley (Switzerland, 1984) and perhaps at the coast of the Ostsee (Germany). Its occurrence is to be expected also in other countries.

Distribution and habitat

Inocybe aeruginascens is widely distributed in temperate areas and has been reported in central Europe and western North America.  It grows in moist sandy soils in a mycorrhizal relationship with poplar, linden, oak and willow trees.

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