Heath Navel

Omphalina umbellifera

In boggy places on peat hummocks with dead mosses. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1-3 cm across, depressed, goblet-shaped, pale yellow, greenish-cream, the margin lobed-furrowed, pleated. Gills distant, whitish, whitish-yellowish, decurrent. Stem up to 2 cm long, central, the colour of the cap, paler at the base. Flesh very thin, yellowish, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies greyish, brownish-yellow, growing only in boggy places. Appears singly in swampy forests and bogs, on peaty soil, sometimes on rotted wood. Common. Inedible.