Wednesday, 15 February 2012

White Milking Bonnet

Facts
Common Name: 
White Milking Bonnet
Scientific Name: 
Mycena galopus var. candida
Cap Diameter (mm): 
10-20mm
Stem Height (mm): 
50-100mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
2-3mm
Information
Description: 

A small, pure white fungus  witha bell-shaped cap found growing solitary or in small troops in mixed woodland and beneath hedgerows.

Distribution: 

Common from Summer till Autumn.

Habitat: 

Mixed woodland either solitary or in small troops.

Cap: 

Initially conical, campanulate with age, white, markedly striate-sulcate.

Flesh: 

Cap flesh is thin and white. Stem flesh whitish, fragile and hollow, exuding white liquid when cut.

Gills: 

Adnate, fairly distant, white, .

Stem: 

Smooth and slender, concolorous with the cap, more or less equal and woolly or downy at the base, slightly rooting, exudes liquid when cut.