White Saddle - Helvella crispa
This fungus is readily identified by its irregularly shaped creamy whitish cap, fluted stem, and fuzzy undersurfaces. The saddle-shaped cap may have two or three major undulations and many minor curled contortions and is typically 3 to 8cm across.
Under broad leaved trees, particularly beech and oak, and most often beside well-trodden paths.
Summer and autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
10 October 2012
irturner
Cloud Wood NR
09 December 2018
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
14 October 2020
Melinda Bell
Donisthorpe,Woodland Park
27 December 2021
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Species profile
- Common names
- White Saddle
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Pezizales
- Family:
- Helvellaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 28
- First record:
- 10/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 02/11/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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irturner
Willesley wood
07 November 2021
irturner
Cloud Wood NR
09 December 2018
sue
Glenfield, County Hall
07 November 2019
sue
Glenfield, County Hall
07 November 2019
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
20 October 2019
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
20 October 2019
Melinda Bell
Donisthorpe,Woodland Park
12 December 2020
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
20 October 2019
fluted stem
