Redleg Club

Typhula erytropus – Inedible

Forests, parks, grows on rotten leaf veins and petioles. End of summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies tiny, consisting of a fertile and a sterile part. Fruiting body 1-3 cm tall, the head (fertile part) 0.5-1.5 cm long, up to 0.1 mm thick, white. Stem (sterile part) 1-2 cm long, 1-0.3 mm thick, tough, reddish-brown. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies tiny, two-coloured, growing from a sclerotium. Grows singly but close to one another, on last year's leaves of aspen, alder and other deciduous trees. Grows from a tiny sclerotium. Common. Saprotroph, an active decomposer of leaves.