Dung Roundhead

Stropharia semiglobata

Forests, parks, pastures, roadsides. Summer, autumn.

Small fruiting bodies. Cap 2-3 (3) cm across, surface smooth, slimy, yellowish-cream, straw-coloured. Gills violet-greyish-brown, adnate. Stem slender, 5-10 (15) cm long and about 0.3 cm thick, with a delicate, falling-off ring encircling the stem obliquely. Flesh yellowish, thin. Characteristic features: grows only on excrement, cap and stem yellowish.

Appears in small groups on the excrement of wild animals and domestic livestock. Inedible, very common. A sanitiser that cleans the environment. Has psychotropic properties.