Black Milking Bonnet - Mycena galopus
Like all the bonnet mushrooms, this has a delicate look with thin stem and a cap just 1-2cm across. The cap is typically pale beige often with a darker centre. The stem exudes white latex if broken. The gills are adnate and near white. The variety 'nigra' has a dark brown, almost black, cap and stem.
It is found in mixed woodland
Autumn
Widespread and common in Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 November 2011
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge NR
02 October 2005
var. nigra (Black Milking Bonnet)
AJ Cann
Martinshaw
30 September 2017
AJ Cann
Martinshaw
30 September 2017
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 02/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 07/11/2023 (lemmon, roy)
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