Snapping Bonnet - Mycena vitilis

A small to medium-sized Mycena, with a grey brown to grey conical or bell-shaped cap, darker in the middle and paler at the sides.  The gills are whitish. The stem is greasy and elastic when wet, and brittle and shiny when dry; greyish-brown and usually with a paler apex.   The base may have long white fibrils and be rooted into woody debris.   The English name stems from the 'snap' when the stem is pulled lengthways until it breaks; this can be a handy field character but identification should be confirmed from other features.

Other woodland Mycena

This is difficult to verify from a photo and we recommend that this is verified by an expert before submission to NatureSpot. Also photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note texture of stipe, habitat and substrate.

On woody debris in woodlands, mainly on oak

Autumn.

Fairly common and widespread in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

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