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| synonyms: Common Bonnet, Mycène à bonnet, Mycène casqué, Rosablättriger Helmling |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Grey to beige |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Conical or nearly so |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood |
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Mycena galericulata (Scop. ex Fr.) S.F. Gray syn. M. rugosa (Fr.) Quél. Rosablättriger Helmling Mycène à bonnet, Mycène casqué Common Bonnet. Cap 2–6cm across, conical expanding to bell-shaped with broad umbo, brown or grey-brown with paler margin which is distinctly lined. Stem 20–100 x 3–8mm, concolorous with cap, paler near apex, hollow but tough, base covered in fine white fibrils and often rooting. Flesh thin, white. Taste mild, smell mealy when crushed, rancid. Gills adnate with decurrent tooth, white at first becoming flesh-pink. Cheilocystidia clavate covered with relatively long filiform processes. Spore print cream. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 9–12 x 6–8um. Basidia often two-spored. Habitat in clusters on stumps and fallen branches of broad-leaved trees. Season all year. Common. Edible – not worthwhile -avoid. Distribution, America and Europe. |
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