Dung Roundhead - Stropharia semiglobata
The hemispherical cap is 1 to 3cm in diameter. It is viscid when wet; smooth and shiny when dry and varies in colour from pale yellowy cream to a browner shade. The slender stem is very pale at the apex and pale ochre below the transient ring; its flesh is solid and pale ochre. The ring zone is white at first but discolours purple-brown as the fruit body ages.
On animal dung and freshly manured grassland.
June to November.
Grows on dung.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Lea Meadows
16 October 2011
David Nicholls
Lea Meadows
16 October 2011
Steve Mathers
Altar Stones NR
08 November 2017
Steve Mathers
Altar Stones NR
08 November 2017
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- Common names
- Dung Roundhead
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 16
- First record:
- 16/10/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 10/10/2024 (Graham Fisher)
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