Lilac Bonnet - Mycena pura
A medium to large-sized Mycena, very variable in colour from pale lilac-pink to pinkish-grey, violet-grey and dark violet; may alo be yellowish, white or bluish. Gills and stipe also whitish to pale pink/lilac. The stipe is cylindrical and may be wider below, but is not club-shaped. Smell is radish-like.
Pinkish forms can be very similar to Mycena rosea, but is often less robust and less uniform in colour. M rosea stipe is clavate (gradully widens towards the base).
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note habitat and substrate.
Broadleaved woodland and other well wooded areas.
Late summer and autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Craig Mabbett
Fosse Meadow's Sharnford
04 November 2015
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined
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Species profile
- Common names
- Lilac Bonnet
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Mycenaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 02/11/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 07/12/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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