Estimated value
Not a sellable food species.
Never sell. Same amatoxins as death cap. The reason you never eat little brown mushrooms on wood.
poisonous · deadly
Deadly Galerina
Galerina marginata
Also called Funeral bell
Field marks
- Spore print
- Rusty brown
- Smell
- Floury or none
- Trees / hosts
- Conifer debris, sometimes hardwood
- Elevation
- Wide.
Description
Small brown mushroom on rotting wood. Rusty-brown spores, thin ring, hygrophanous cap. Looks boring. Kills people who think they found a 'honey mushroom' or a wood-loving Psilocybe.
Where it grows
Rotting logs, stumps, wood chips.
How to find it
On conifer logs and wood chips. Memorize it if you walk those habitats.
How to pick
Never for the table.
Medicinal notes
None. Amatoxins.
Psychoactive / controlled
None. Deadly lookalike of some wood-loving Psilocybe.
Law
Not food.
Lookalikes
Honey mushroom
Honey grows in big clusters, white spores, black hairs on young caps. Still an advanced edible.
- Wood-loving Psilocybe
Psilocybe bruise blue; Galerina do not. Spore print brown vs purple-brown. Still: never eat LBMs.
Field ID ticket
Tick every required mark in the woods. 0/3 required. This still is not laboratory certainty.
Do not eat or sell this specimen. Missing required marks.