Angel's Bonnet - Mycena arcangeliana
This is a conical fungus with a whitish cap of about 25mm always less than 50 mm. Stem much longer than cap diameter, hollow. Has no smell when fresh but if collected it develops a medicinal (iodine) smell as it dries out. Spore print white.
Grows in tufts in woodland and on wood
Autumn
Common and widespread in Britain
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
David Nicholls
Battram Wood
17 October 2015
AJ Cann
Ulverscroft
24 September 2017
Spore print white
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Species profile
- Common names
- Angel's Bonnet
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 23
- First record:
- 16/10/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2023 (McLoughlin, Margaret)
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Craig Mabbett
Clump Hill Fields Broughton Astley
30 November 2014
David Nicholls
Battram Wood
17 October 2015
Lostash
Swithland Woods
18 October 2012
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
