Funeral Bell

Galerina marginata

On rotten stumps, windfalls, snags, branches lying on the ground. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3–5 cm, sometimes even 8 cm across, yellowish-brown, surface smooth, not scaly. Gills ochre-yellow, yellowish-reddish-brown. Stem 3-7x0.3–0.8 cm, with a leathery ring, brownish, reddish-brown, greyish above the ring, slightly fibrous but not scaly. Flesh yellowish, thin, with an unpleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: stem with a ring, not scaly, gills yellowish-brown, grows mostly on coniferous wood. Grows singly or in small groups. Very poisonous, widespread in Lithuania, common. When gathering honey fungi and sheathed woodtufts, let us not forget this fungus that is dangerous to health.