Plates of Fungi Paintings by J. Augustus Knapp Commissioned by Curtis Gates Lloyd Plate No. 16: Hygrocybe conica, the Witches hat
This is a very colorful mushroom, with an evocative common name, whose stem becomes blackened when it is bruised. Many guidebooks list this as a poisonous species, but experts continue to debate its edibility.
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Plates of Fungi

Paintings by J. Augustus Knapp Commissioned by Curtis Gates Lloyd

Plate No. 16: Hygrocybe conica, the Witches hat

This is a very colorful mushroom, with an evocative common name, whose stem becomes blackened when it is bruised. Many guidebooks list this as a poisonous species, but experts continue to debate its edibility.

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