Common Bonnet - Mycena galericulata
A large, tough, variable species with campanulate or conical caps, sometimes radially wrinkled, greyish or buff, usually darkeri n centre, paler to margins. Gills are whitish or becoming slightly pink with age; often with inter-connecting ridges. Smell and taste farinaceous, large size (20-60mm).
other Mycena
microscopy/smell/taste 
- cheilocystidia: with long finger like extensions (medusa-like head)
- basidia: mainly 2 spored
- farinaceous taste
This is a difficult speces to identify with certainty unless it has been microscopically examined from a specimen. Expert verification prior to submssion to NatureSpot is recommended. Also photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note size, smell, taste habitat and substrate.
On stumps and dead branches
Late spring to autumn
Common and widespread in Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
det. R Iliffe from specimen
David Nicholls
Bradgate Park
16 October 2019
det. T Hering
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bonnet Mycena, Common Bonnet
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 17
- First record:
- 12/12/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 08/12/2023 (Gaten, Ted)
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