Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Redlead Roundhead

Facts
Common Name: 
Redlead Roundhead
Scientific Name: 
Stropharia aurantiaca
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-60mm
Stem Height (mm): 
20-100mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
2-10mm
Information
Description: 

A small to medium fungus commonly found in parks and gardens growing on wood chips and sawdust.

Distribution: 

Common from Summer to Autumn.

Habitat: 

Becoming common in parks and gardens growing in sawdust and wood chips.

Cap: 

Convex, orange-red, viscid when moist, smooth and slightly shiny when dry, occasionally with white velar remains at the cap edge.

Flesh: 

Cap flesh is firm, pale buff, stem flesh stuffed or full. 

Gills: 

Adnate, close, white in young specimens, clay with an olivaceous tinge when mature.

Stem: 

Pale ochre, tingesimilar to cap colour at the base, which is slightly thickened. The ring is yellowish, fragile and superior.