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Bleeding Bonnet

Mycena sanguinolenta

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Mushrooms

By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Bleeding Bonnet Mycena sanguinolenta (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Kumm. (illustrated 50% life size) Cap 1–2cm across, conical to bell-shaped; brownish-red with darker umbo, striate. Stem 45–80×1–2mm; concolorous with cap; exuding blood-red latex when broken. Flesh reddish; very thin; taste mild, smell not distinctive. Gills adnate; whitish or tinged flesh-colour with reddish-brown edge. Spores 9–10×4–5¼, pip-shaped; amyloid. Spore print white. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia fusoid, with sharply pointed apex, thin-walled, with brownish contents. Habitat amongst grass on lawns and heaths and in woodlands; summer. Common. Edible but not worthwhile.

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