Bonnet Mushrooms are small, saprotrophic fungi that grow in clusters on decaying wood. They have distinctive bell-shaped caps that flatten with age, typically greyish or brownish and measuring up to 6cm across. They belong to the genus Mycena.
Name: Angel's Bonnet Mycena arcangeliana
Description: The caps measure up to 25mm across. Smells of iodine. Common.
Habitat: Usually found on stumps and fallen trunks of beech or ash trees, and occasionally other dead hardwoods.
Name: Angel's Bonnet
Mycena arcangeliana
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Name: Nitrous Bonnet Mycena leptocephala
Description: Has conical greyish caps up to 3cm in diameter, and thin fragile stipes up to 5cm long. Its gills are grey and distantly spaced.
Habitat: Grows in short grassland.
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Name: Dripping Bonnet Mycena rorida
Description: The convex cap, 5 - 15mm across, is whitish or dirty yellow. The stipe is covered in a thick coating of slippery slime. This fungus creates foxfire, a bluish-green bioluminescent glow that is cold to the touch. Also known as 'Slippery Mycena'.
Habitat: Found under trees in vegetable debris.
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Name: Steely Bonnet M. pseudocorticola
Description: Tiny, saprotrophic.
Habitat: Grows on dead deciduous trees that are usually covered in moss and found during autumn and winter.
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Name: Milking Bonnet Mycena galopus
Description: Cap 10 - 25mm across. Hollow stipe 50 - 80mm long and 1 - 3 mm diameter. When the fruiting bodies are young and fresh the stems release a white milky fluid when snapped.
Habitat: Leaf litter in woodland and occassionally grassy locations near hedgerows.
Name:
Milking Bonnet
Mycena galopu
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Name: White Milking Bonnet Mycena galopus var. candida
Description: A white variation of the Milking Bonnet.
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White Milking Bonnet
Mycena galopus var. candida
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Name: Black Milking Bonnet Mycena galopus var. nigra
Description: A black variation of the Milking Bonnet.
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