Rosy Bonnet - Mycena rosea

A large, pink Mycena with a convex to flat umbonate cap, sometimes with a central zone. It becomes paler with age and may develop yellowish tinges at the centre.  The gills are pink and the stipe is white to pale pnk, sometimes yellowish below, and widens towards the base (clavate).  There is also a white form.   The smell is radish-like. 

Mycena pura may also be pale pink, but with a lilac tinge, and is usually less robust and less uniform in colour, and does not have a clavate stipe.  

Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills; note habitat and substrate.

Leaf litter beneath deciduous trees, especially Beech and Oak

Autumn.

Widespread in Britain with the majority of records coming from the southern and western regions of England.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland nor known.

Some sources consider this species is a colour-form of the Lilac Bonnet, Mycena pura.  Kibby (2020), Læssøe and Petersen (2019) and Aronsen & Læssøe (2016) treat them as separate speces, so we have followed this.