Rosy Bonnet

Mycena rosea

Forests, parks, grassy, damp places, on the ground and forest litter. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies, as is typical of the genus Mycena, small. Cap 3–6 cm across, conical when young, later flattened, with an umbo, hygrophanous, greyish-pink, pale pink, fading to cream or even whitish, the margin translucently furrowed. Gills distant, broad, white, pale pink when mature, adnexed. Stem 3-8 (10)x0.3-1 cm, thickening towards the base, brownish or the colour of the cap, white-hairy and bristly at the base. Flesh thin, white, smelling of radish and gas. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies fading, with an unpleasant smell of radish and gas. Grows singly or in small groups. Poisonous, containing muscarine. Very common. The symptoms of poisoning are very similar to those caused by the stinking bonnet, whose fruiting bodies are violet, pinkish-violet and grow in the same places. Common.