Alder Bogcap

Naucoria alnetorum

Damp, grassy black-alder woods, forests, bogs, shrublands. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies tiny. Cap 1-2 cm across, broadly bell-shaped when young, flattened when mature, with a slight umbo and sometimes even depressed, fragile, translucent, furrowed, dark reddish-brown, fading to yellowish ochre. Gills whitish ochre, reddish-brown, edges finely white-toothed, notched. Stem 3-5 (6)x0.1–0.3 cm, fragile, cream-coloured, reddish-brown when old, lower part blackish-brown, fibrous. Flesh very thin, brown, with a smell of stale flour and a slightly bitter taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies reddish-brown, fading, appearing only under alders. Grows in small groups. Inedible. Very common. Saprotroph.