Moss Bell

Galerina hypnorum

Among mosses and on moss-covered stumps, windfalls, snags. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies tiny. Cap 0.3-1.5 cm across, bluntly bell-shaped, finally convex, shiny, translucent, furrowed, delicate, fragile. Gills creamy yellow, adnate, narrow, distant, adnexed or adnate. Stem 2-5x0.1 cm. Flesh very thin, without any particular or with a very faint smell of flour, not bitter. Characteristic features: tiny fruiting bodies glowing yellow among mosses like little candles. Grows singly or in small groups. Saprotroph, the most widespread of all Galerina species in forests and bogs. 200 species have been described; in Lithuania 27 species have been found so far, saprophytes of wood, soil and herbaceous plants, inedible, and 2 are deadly poisonous.