Aniseed Toadstool - Clitocybe odora
Young specimens have a convex cap, soon expanuing to flat or slightly depressed; blue-grey, grey-green to pale grey. Gills decurrent pale blue-green; stem paler with white down at the base. The smell is strongly aniseed.
other funnels have aniseed smell - but the blueish-greenish grey colour should help identify
smell 
Photograph top-down, in side view and underneath to show gills, note habitat and substrate; note smell
Deciduous and coniferous woodland.
Late summer and autumn.
Widespread and frequent (Kibby, Vol.2, 2020)
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
22 October 2025
Graham Calow
Ulverscroft
08 September 2011
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Graham Calow
Ulverscroft
08 September 2011
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Graham Fisher
Hallgates spinney
16 October 2025
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
15 September 2020
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
15 September 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Aniseed Toadstool, Aniseed Funnel
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 16
- First record:
- 08/09/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 26/10/2025 (Graham Fisher)
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Graham Calow
Ulverscroft
08 September 2011
Melinda Bell
Charley,Charnwood Lodge
06 October 2019
Graham Fisher
Bradgate Park
26 October 2025
