Scurfy Twiglet

Tubaria furfuracea

Forests, parks, sometimes gardens. Autumn, spring.

Fruiting bodies small, tiny. Cap 1.5-4 cm across, convex when young, later raised-flattened, slightly depressed, reddish-brown, chestnut-coloured, furrowed to the middle, fading with age to greyish-cream. Gills cream, old ones reddish-brown, adnate or slightly decurrent. Stem 2-5x0.2-0.5 cm, the colour of the cap, with a white coating at the base. Flesh thin, brown, fragile, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies reddish-brown, appearing in the second half of autumn and early in spring. Grows singly or in small groups on wood debris. Inedible. Common. Wood saprotroph.